Inspired by sea sponges, researchers created living micro-lenses from bacteria that may improve medical and industrial ...

A scientist who was working on plague-causing bacteria caught the disease despite using weakened strains that were deemed ...

Bacteria can be engineered to sense a variety of molecules, such as pollutants or soil nutrients. In most cases, however, these signals can only be detected by looking at the cells under a microscope ...

Microbes in the Gowanus sediment have evolved methods of coping with and even subsisting off of the contamination, according ...

A Seattle lab has lost janitorial services, hazardous waste support, IT and building maintenance as it waits for the Commerce ...

Most tuberculosis tests are conducted on sputum samples. The difficulty with this is that many people, particularly children ...

Induction of Multicellularity: When mechanically compressed, the salt-loving archaeon Haloferax volcanii can shift from being ...

Amid cheers for its push-back against US President Donald Trump's demands, Harvard University is facing a dire situation with its research programs on the verge of collapsing ...

Bacteria are often cast as the microbial villains of our food system, blamed for spoilage and sickness. But behind the scenes ...

Ryan Hunter, PhD, associate professor of microbiology and immunology, recently created a device to study anaerobic bacteria alongside oxygenated cells, simulating microenvironments within the body.

Researchers have developed a method to extract living cells from feces that they say could help conservationists better ...