Material from asteroid Ryugu riddled with earthly microbes provides a cautionary tale for scientists seeking signs of alien ...

As scientists seek to better understand the molecular nature of life, the possibility of creating organisms with radically ...

Vibrio bacteria sickened dozens of people following Hurricanes Helene and Milton, and the microbes’ range appears to be ...

Even better, it’s cheap, entirely pain-free, no need to stand in a line, and not followed by fever, swelling, redness, or a ...

When all you’ve got is a hammer, everything looks like a nail. And when you’ve got a scanning electron microscope, everything must look like a sample that would be really, really interesting ...

The unexpected discovery of microbial life in a piece of rock from an asteroid shows how hard it is to avoid contaminating ...

M icrobiologists have studied bacterial defense mechanisms against phages for decades. But until less than a decade ago, ...

Photosynthesis, the process by which plants, algae and certain kinds of bacteria convert solar radiation into chemical energy ...

Bacteria modify their ribosomes when exposed to widely used antibiotics, according to research published today in Nature Communications. The subtle changes might be enough to alter the binding ...

A team led by University of Toronto researchers has discovered a new communication pathway between the gut and lung.

Scientists from Durham University, Jagiellonian University (Poland), and the John Innes Centre have made a significant advancement in understanding DNA gyrase, an essential bacterial enzyme and a ...

Electron microscopy uses a beam of electrons to illuminate a sample and achieve much higher spatial resolution than light microscopy. Transmission electron microscopy generates an image of the ...