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

While probably years away from widespread use, a test for TB that relies on a simple tongue swab instead of a person having ...

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

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

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 ...

Just days after reporting its first measles case of the year, in a child, the Indiana Department of Health (IDOH) yesterday ...

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

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.