Major discoveries, including the role of DNA, the biological basis of psychology, and the human genome, missed out on science’s top recognition

Abstract. Microbial metagenomes preserved in prehistoric dental calculus samples provide access to past bacterial biodiversity and evolutionary dynamics ac

The public hugely overestimate how many graduates regret going to university and significantly underestimate the importance of higher education to the UK economy, according to a new study into percept...

In March 2026, an unusually large outbreak of invasive meningococcal disease (IMD) in Kent, UK, was linked to attendance at one nightclub over a single weekend. The outbreak organism was a Neisseria m...

AbstractMotivation. The increasing number of fully sequenced bacterial plasmids being annotated and catalogued has prompted the development of computationa

A study of the full economic cost of providing undergraduate-level higher education and other qualifications in England.

by Karen G. Lloyd — The story behind some extremely long-lived microbial cells.

Project Code IIAR27Ex van Houte Project Type Wet lab Research Theme Infection, Immunity, and Antimicrobial Resistance Project Summary Download Summary Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) poses a major thre...

Project Code IIAR27Ba Matlock Project Type Wet lab Research Theme Infection, Immunity, and Antimicrobial Resistance Project Summary Download Summary Plasmids are important drivers of antimicrobial res...

Abstract. Escherichia coli is a prototroph and can synthesize all twenty proteinogenic amino acids when required to grow in minimal medium. There are appro

Abstract. To successfully transfer, conjugative plasmids must overcome a recipient cell’s defence mechanisms. The leading region of many plasmids—the first

Creating accurate graphs and performing statistical analyses can be challenging for those who lack coding experience. This Community Page introduces grafify online, a free, browser-based app for generating publication-quality graphs and performing statistical tests and post-hoc comparisons.