Many insects rely on heritable bacterial endosymbionts for essential nutrients that they cannot get through their diet. A new study, published in Nature Communications, indicates that the genomes of ...

Researchers at University of Tsukuba have uncovered a master transcriptional regulator that controls rhizobial symbiosis ...

Symbiotic bacteria living inside insect cells have lost much of their DNA over hundreds of millions of years, much like the ancient microbes that evolved into mitochondria ...

Symbiotic Security, which is announcing a $3 million seed round today, watches over developers as they code and points out potential security issues in real time. Other companies do this, but ...

Some salamanders (Ambystoma maculatum) have a strange relationship with a type of alga (Oophila amblystomatis); they are symbionts and the algae grow in the eggs of the salamanders and enter the ...

Symbiotic and pathogenic fungi that interact with plants are distantly related and don't share many genetic similarities. Comparing plant pathogenic fungi and plant symbiotic fungi, scientists at the ...

Artificial intelligence (AI) is widely considered to be the technology with the greatest potential to alter the future of humanity. While current approaches in AI development have focused on creating ...

An international research team demonstrates that the European spruce bark beetle (Ips typographus) uses volatile fungal metabolites of plant defense substances as important chemical signals in their ...

One of the industry’s biggest newsmakers this week was Arie Belldegrun. The biotech entrepreneur, who founded Kite Pharma, unveiled his latest project on Tuesday: life sciences credit firm Symbiotic ...