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

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

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

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

Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM) has revolutionized the realm of microscopic analysis. By delivering astonishingly detailed images of minuscule entities such as insects, bacteria, or even the ...

X-ray scans revealed nothing unusual, so the particles were encased in epoxy resin for microscopic study. Weeks later, under ...

The study explored the structural and functional characteristics of Salmonella Typhimurium DSB using advanced microscopy ...

This discovery sheds light on the evolution and adaptation of photosynthetic organisms and could potentially lead to new, ...

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 ...

One of these involves fusion between cells from domains Archaea and Bacteria: one of the cells involved in the fusion becomes the eukaryote nucleus (Martin & Muller 1998; Martin 2005; Martin et al.