Lead, a highly toxic heavy metal pollutant with a long biological half-life and environmental persistence, has posed serious ...

Magnetotactic bacteria, which can align with the Earth's magnetic field, have been discovered in a new location. Previously observed on land and in shallow water, analysis of a hydrothermal vent has ...

Recently, the research group led by Dr. WANG Junfeng at the High Magnetic Field Laboratory, the Hefei Institutes of Physical Science of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, revealed significant ...

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Magnetic navigation of magnetotactic bacterial and the magnetosome chains. (Image: MA Kun) Targeted delivery of anti-tumor drugs can effectively improve the efficacy and minimize the toxicity of drugs ...

Biominerals are important archives of the presence of life and environmental processes in the geological record. However, ascribing a clear biogenic nature to minerals with nanometer-sized dimensions ...

Re: Helping bacteria use magnets.1 Magnetotactic bacteria do not navigate by using the earth's magnetic field. They only move – pushed by their magnetosoms from the inside – in the direction of the ...