In the world of microorganisms, microbes compete for turf, spew chemicals at foes, and sometimes exploit the microscopic ...

Pseudomonas aeruginosa (small rod-shaped bacteria) swarms toward and around a neighboring Cryptococcus neoformans (round yeast) colony. The thin fluid halo surrounding the yeast enables the bacteria ...

NASA scientists have accidentally uncovered 26 previously unknown species of bacteria—a discovery that challenges current ...

Rohini Subrahmanyam is a biologist-turned-science-writer with a background ... lab and coauthor of the study, swabbed samples from microwaves from homes, shared spaces, laboratories, and industrial ...

She has a background in microbiology ... Microbiologist Scott Chimileski at the Marine Biological Laboratory combines microscopy and time-lapse photography to capture the visual beauty of these ...

Scientists from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Southern California, along with researchers in India and Saudi ...

Federal health investigators are back at the Tulane National Primate Research Center in Louisiana this week seeking the source of the lab accident that has somehow exposed at least seven monkeys ...

Lariocidin hits drug-resistant bacteria where others fail — by hijacking ... bacterial strains by culturing them in the laboratory for approximately one year. Such a long-term culture allowed ...

“Mirror bacteria” made in a lab could endanger all life on earth, an international group of leading scientists have warned in ...

So, the research team, based in Shenzhen, China, started by simply testing a number of lab bacteria strains to develop one that could survive these conditions. The one that seemed to survive the ...

There has been much theoretical debate about whether and how organisms can evolve to become better at evolving, but now a team of researchers has made it happen in a lab – and documented almost ...

If mirror bacteria were to escape from the lab, there would be nothing to prevent them from establishing themselves in the wild and threatening plants, animals, and humans with lethal infections.