In a recent study, researchers gained new insight into the lives of bacteria that survive by grouping together as if they ...

Microbial organisms dominate life on Earth, but tracing their early history and evolution is difficult because they rarely ...

Until now, it’s been very hard for scientists to establish a detailed timeline of the early evolution of bacteria.

Certain antibiotic-resistant infections could be treated with precision medicine in the future, thanks to a new resource mapping plasmids the ultimate vehicle of rapid bacterial evolution.

Scientists assumed most forms of life before the Great Oxidation Event didn't metabolize oxygen—but recent research suggests ...

Being magnetotactic means that MMB are part of a select group of bacteria that orient their movement based on Earth's ...

Certain antibiotic-resistant infections could be treated with precision medicine in the future, thanks to a new resource ...

The Great Oxidation Event (GOE) some 2.4 billion years ago established the oxygen-rich atmosphere that many living things ...

Bacteria may have adapted to oxygen well before Earth's atmosphere was saturated with it, according to a new study. Researchers who traced microbial ...

This important study analyzes the effect of heat treatment on phage-bacterial interactions and convincingly shows that prior heat exposure alters the bacterial cell envelope, enhancing persistence and ...

Mobile DNA elements, such as Insertion Sequence (IS) elements, transposons, integrative elements (e.g. integrative islands), ...