Cyanobacteria, commonly known as blue-green algae, are found almost everywhere in the world—from hot springs to arctic ice to ...

The community of microbes in the gastrointestinal tract, the gut microbiome, is an essential partner in digestion. Those microorganisms help us break down certain foods and absorb nutrients, and the ...

New studies from Arizona State University reveal surprising ways bacteria can move without their flagella—the slender, ...

Researchers from the University of Vienna discovered MISO bacteria that use iron minerals to oxidize toxic sulfide, creating energy and producing sulfate. This biological process reshapes how ...

The current climate change crisis is the result of carbon deposits that have taken many millions of years to build up being suddenly released into the atmosphere over the space of a few decades. But ...

Throughout evolution, pathogenic microorganisms, such as bacteria, viruses, and fungi, have developed sophisticated defense ...

We know some microbes can break down certain plastics, but our new study finds no clear correlation between plastic pollution levels and the production of plastic-degrading enzymes by marine ...

A quest to discover new antibiotics is taking a Cal Poly biochemistry research team back in time millions of years as they ...