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.

Dr Asha Kembhavi and Dr Ria Deshpande are on a mission to tap into India’s vast microbial diversity, developing locally ...

Applications range from precision medicine and resilient agriculture to biosensors for national security and biobased ...

The Trump administration fired everyone in a CDC lab that is crucial to tracking drug-resistant gonorrhea and other sexually ...