A project at the University of Tokyo has developed a mid-infrared microscopy platform offering an improved view of structures inside living bacteria. Described in Nature Photonics, the new nanoscope ...

In what they labeled a "surprising" finding, Johns Hopkins Medicine researchers studying bacteria from freshwater lakes and soil say they have determined a protein's essential role in maintaining the ...

Lucy Shapiro received this year’s Lasker Special Achievement Award for her discovery of how bacteria use genetic circuits to encode three-dimensional cellular life. “I was quite shocked, truly,” said ...

Micro decisions can have macro consequences. A soft matter physicist reveals how interactions within simple cellular collectives can lead to emergent physical traits. Biofilms lead lives of liminality ...

The tiny pantheon known as the Asgard archaea bear traits that hint at how plants, animals and fungi emerged on Earth.

A newly identified class of RNA molecules has been discovered in bacteria living inside the human body. These circular ...

Duke researchers may have come up with a way to disarm them, and thus help prevent $220 billion in annual crop damage DURHAM, N.C. -- Many of the bacteria that ravage crops and threaten our food ...

If gut bacteria are too similar to the protective layer of nerves, they can misdirect the immune system and cause it to ...