A new underwater nutrient sensor between the Caloosahatchee and the Gulf of Mexico promises to help researchers solve some water issues facing Southwest Florida. At the mouth of the Caloosahatchee, ...

Bacterial spores can survive for years, even centuries, without nutrients, resisting heat, UV radiation, and antibiotics. How inert, sleeping bacteria -- or spores -- spring back to life has been a ...

A human intestinal organoid, displaying typical ‘budding crypts’ and a central ‘villus-like’ domain. The main intestinal cell types are shown in green, blue, red and purple. Membranes are yellow and ...

Might they, then, have nutrient sensors of their own? As described in a new paper published in Science, Kıvanç Birsoy and his colleagues in Rockefeller's Laboratory of Metabolic Regulation and ...