For example, a bacterium traveling through the human gut can experience pHs ranging from highly acidic (pH 2-3) to basic (pH 8-9) in just a few hours. In hypersaline ponds, bacteria in microbial ...

It’s one of the biggest arguments for basic research.-Moh El-Naggar, University of Southern California I said, “I heard that you're doing all these interesting projects with bacteria and electrons. I ...

Magnetotactic bacteria synthesize magnetic iron nanominerals, which function as tiny compasses that allow the microbes to navigate using Earth's geomagnetic field. Earth's iron cycle is a very ...

Bacterial viruses are much better understood than the more complex animal viruses, but this same basic technique of using viruses as gene retrievers may eventually be used in higher animals ...