Pandas are adored, but equally mocked as poorly adapted, evolutionary dead-ends. But while it might seem like they just loll ...

is scouring environmental samples such as soil for organisms with novel antimicrobial activities. By isolating very large segments (up to 300,000 bp) of DNA from nonculturable bacteria and then ...

The origin of complex eukaryotic cells, of the type found in all plants and animals, is shrouded in mystery. Now, strange ...

A team led by Rice University bioscientist Caroline Ajo-Franklin has discovered how certain bacteria breathe by generating ...

Hundreds of millions of years before oxygen surged in the atmosphere 2.4 billion years ago, swaths of oxygen winked in and out of existence in the ocean.

Microorganisms—defined as very small living beings, invisible to the naked eye, comprising bacteria, fungi, viruses or others—naturally compete and cooperate in nature for survival.

Scientists have identified a new species of bacteria in the mudflats of Oregon's Yaquina Bay that is capable of conducting ...

To tackle the mercury issue, the researchers took inspiration from mercury-resistant soil bacteria. These microbes produce an enzyme that helps them detoxify mercury. The team inserted this enzyme ...

"At some point it might not be beneficial anymore to stick around with your buddies. But if you don't, you die." ...

Five gene clusters have been integrated into the bacterium Vibrio natriegens to engineer a strain that can remediate five ...

As the search for geologic hydrogen - a potential clean source of energy beneath the ground - continues, some researchers are ...