In the world of microorganisms, microbes compete for turf, spew chemicals at foes, and sometimes exploit the microscopic ...

Learn more about a new, preliminary method that scientists are starting to use to control certain functions of bacteria.

There's something make-believe, almost Pokémon-like in a new species of bacteria found living on a mud flat in Oregon.

A biomedical engineer at the University of Michigan has found that just a fraction of all known bacteria species has ever ...

American Society For Microbiology Agar Art 2022 Contest ... why citizen scientist-artists might opt for manipulated bacteria over species cultured from the wild. The lab-designed microorganisms ...

The composition of bacterial populations living on our faces plays a significant role in the development of acne and other skin conditions such as eczema. Two species of bacteria predominate in ...

Scientists have discovered a previously unknown strain of microbe after analyzing samples taken from China's Tiangong space ...

A man developed an "extensive" infection that caused his hands to swell after being bitten by a stray cat that was carrying an unknown species of bacteria, a new case report reveals. The 48-year ...

On Earth there is no record of Niallia tiangongensis, a bacterium found aboard the Tiangong station that appears to be well ...

allowing us to isolate just the bacterial species that reacted and bound to the antibodies. We found that one previously unknown species of bacteria was present in the intestines of around 20% of ...

A species of bacteria that lived 407 million years ago would have flourished among early land plants. Detailed 3D reconstructions of fossils discovered in Scotland are helping scientists to understand ...