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

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.

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 ...

A team of researchers has created a novel machine learning tool that's cracking open one of biology's trickiest puzzles: ...

Certain places on Earth seem far too extreme to support life, but that assumption is far from true. Rather, life apparently ...

You have this convergence of crises,” says Dr. Angelle Desiree LaBeaud. Here’s what that means and how she and others are ...

The discovery was made in a residential backyard in Maine where researchers were collecting rabbit ticks and testing them for ...

Scientists have discovered two new methane-producing archaea in the human gut, revealing surprising links to inflammation and ...

The emergence of pan-drug resistant bacteria — microbes that resist all known antibiotics — has accelerated the urgency for alternative treatment strategies. "Our goal is to identify molecular ...

A bacteria killing coating created by scientists ... whilst in hospital which then need antibiotic treatment. These microorganisms can survive and remain infectious on abiotic surfaces, for ...

Dr. Pushkar Lele received a National Institute of General Medical Sciences research grant to investigate how bacteria sense their mechanical environment.