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.

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 ...

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

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

A study presents a striking example of cooperative organization among cells as a potential force in the evolution of multicellular life. The study is based on the fluid dynamics of cooperative feeding ...

Enzymes originally evolved in high-temperature environments and later adapted to lower temperatures as Earth cooled. Scientists discovered that a key shift in enzyme function occurred over ...