Angelina Fanny Hesse reveals how childhood memories of Indonesian pudding solved bacteriology’s greatest problem in 1881. The unpaid laboratory technician whose kitchen knowledge enabled Koch…

Alice Catherine Evans discovered that raw milk transmitted deadly brucellosis from cattle to humans – then spent a decade being dismissed by male scientists and dairy interests who valued pro…

The French Nobel laureate ushered in the field of molecular genetics by defining the regulated cellular pathway that translates DNA into proteins.

The arms race between bacteria and bacteriophages (phages) gave rise to multiple layers of antagonistic mechanisms, many of which remain unexplored. Here, we investigated the anti-phage defense system...

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Global Wearable Infusion Pumps market size is expected to reach $2.16 billion by 2029 at 9.5%, segmented as electronic ambulatory infusion pumps, portable infusion pumps, implantable infusion pumps

More than two decades ago, the first naturally occurring mRNA elements regulating gene expression by directly binding target ligands, termed riboswitches, were discovered in bacteria (1–4). Since then, more than 55 classes of riboswitches have been characterized (5, 6), advancing our general knowledge of gene regulation and stress response, but also unveiling unexpected biological roles for compounds whose relevance had remained elusive. A notable example is the discovery of riboswitches recognizing c-di-AMP and c-AMP-GMP (7, 8), which hinted at important biological functions for the two molecules that were later revealed to act as second messengers in key cellular processes such as biofilm formation, chemotaxis, sporulation, and virulence (9–11).