Human travel and shipping is transporting trillions of bacteria around the globe with unexpected effects.
A great deal of mystery DNA has been found in the human gut.
A new research reveals that a lake beneath the West Antarctic ice sheet contains large amounts of methane and describes how methane-eating microbes may keep the climate-warming gas from entering the atmosphere.
The new discovery shows promise in helping to treat the millions infected each year with antibiotic-resistant superbugs.
A new experiment shows that long-term exposure to microgravity affects bacteria at the genetic level.
Teams of scientists are now working on a truly creative strategy: a pill carrying the genome-editing power tool CRISPR that instructs harmful bacteria to shred their own genes to bits.
Synthetic biology meets smart manufacturing.
A type of bacteria accidentally discovered during research could fundamentally reshape efforts to cut the huge amount of electricity consumed during wastewater clean-up. The discovery has upended a century of conventional thinking.
Now, researchers in Cleveland, Ohio have taken a significant step toward defeating antibiotic-resistant infections by combining two different antibiotics that each block a different kind of drug-destroying enzyme secreted by bacteria.
Sending an antibiotic-resistant superbug to a zero-gravity environment like the International Space Station will help NASA better understand how superbugs mutate to become resistant to available antibiotics.
Finnish researchers confirmed that those traveling to exotic locations often bring home drug-resistant bacteria in their intestines. But the people who took antibiotics while exploring those locales came back with the most extensively drug-resistant cargo.
The creation of a concrete-repairing bacteria by British students has inspired scientists to develop biocement, a material that genetically-engineered soil microbes would produce in response to changing pressures in soil to automatically reinforce the land under foundations.
Using DNA sequences, scientists decode new antibiotics used in gut warfare.
A college student has developed a defense against antibiotic-resistant bacteria that literally rips them to shreds.
New technique lets researchers visibly trace evolving lineages of bacteria.
