Microbes are regularly used in food production, form a large part of your own body, and now they’re also an art medium. American Society for Microbiology Agar Art 2019 Contest, People's Choice ...

Art-cleaning bacteria are still on the cutting edge in the restoration world, but they could dramatically improve some old artwork.

Art under siege. Microbes have found their way into museums, caves, and ruins. “Almost any cultural artifact is prone to colonization by microorganisms,” Ana Zélia Miller, ...

Our relationship with microbes has always been complicated. We fear them as “germs,” the organisms behind disease, yet embrace them for their role in the food web and for producing fermented ...

Scientists use microbes such as germs and bacteria to make art for the American Society for Microbiology’s Agar Art Challenge.

The American Society for Microbiology’s annual agar art awards asked scientists, artists and others to create art out of microbes. This year, the theme was: who is your favorite microbiologist?

In the early 1990s, Eshel Ben-Jacob, a biological physicist at Tel Aviv University, and his colleagues discovered two new species of bacteria—Paenibacillus dendritiformis and Paenibacillus ...

To move stealthily through their host’s body, these tiny troublemakers—fungi, bacteria, viruses, and parasites—have evolved strategies to conceal themselves from immunological surveillance. Over the ...

Scientists use microbes such as germs and bacteria to make art for the American Society for Microbiology’s Agar Art Challenge.