It came one year ago! Brad Spakowitz reported on a bacteria never before seen on Earth -- because it was discovered on the ...

The microbes in the human gut can have a powerful effect on our health and well-being, as many studies have shown in recent years... | Microbiology ...

Mono Lake, tucked in the Eastern Sierra, is no ordinary lake. Its eerie tufa towers and teeming swarms of brine shrimp and ...

Researchers from TU Wien, University of Vienna, and Tufts University discovered how microorganisms swim efficiently without ...

Nanoplastics are everywhere. These fragments are so tiny they can accumulate on bacteria and be taken up by plant roots; they're in our food, our water, and our bodies. Scientists don't know the full ...

Every living creature on Earth needs to protect itself from things that would do it harm. Bacteria are no different. And ...

How immune cells eliminate bacteria is a fundamental question in biology and medicine, with implications for infectious ...

As an undergraduate student, after taking my first microbiology course, I decided that I would commit to a biology major. I ...

Very little is known about choanoflagellates, and there are interesting biological phenomena that we can only gain insight ...

The yeast Malassezia helps protect the skin from bacterial infections, but only up to a certain point. Scientists at the ...

The South Carolina Department of Environmental Services (SCDES) found increased levels of a bacteria called Enterococcus near ...