Medicine & TechnologyA study reveals a remarkable assortment of bacteria in Hawai'ian lava caves. Howe are such microbes linked to some forms of life? Read to find out.
A new study offers a novel antimicrobial material made from nanoscale copper that could stick to any surface including the human face. Read more about the innovation and how it works.
A recent study reports that sunken wooden shipwrecks can influence the structure, chemistry, and biology of marine ecosystems as microbes have created their homes. Read the article to learn more.
Researchers developed a new antibiotic that may someday treat human diseases. Read and discover how this new development neutralizes drug-resistant bacteria.
Experts from UC Davis discovered how probiotics protect our guts from destructive bacterias. Read more about this cellular activity in our gastrointestinal systems and the benefits it produce.
A new study reveals how bacteria are moving to create a beeline and escape tight space. Learn more about how such microbes are moving inside our bodies.
Both humans and animal species are sharing diseases. Discover the illnesses these two transfer to each other, as well as the impact of the transmission on them.
A comprehensive study on meningitis showed how the condition is induced by a fungal infection. Read more about how meningitis is initiated by deadly microbes.
A new study developed by the innovators of CRISPR-Cas9 presents a new community editing function for the technology, allowing genome modification of various microbes and cells efficiently through a 'shotgun' approach.
Researchers have successfully isolated bacteria from passion fruit seeds and as a result, they found, such microorganisms are not harmful to plants. In fact, they are discovered to be beneficial.
A new study suggests that volcanoes are responsible for the first existence of oxygen on Earth 100 million years earlier than the Great Oxidation Event.
An international collaboration found the fossils of methane-cycling microbes from 3.42 billion years ago, providing new insights on the potential habitability, or ability to sustain life, of early Earth.
Scientists have found methane from a sample taken from Enceladus, one of the many moons of Saturn, and as the gas is formed, it raises a question: could there be life on the giant satellite?