The structure of microbial communities colonizing microplastics collected from the North Atlantic Ocean (Vineyard Sound, Woods Hole, Mass.) This image reveals the phylogenetic affiliations of…
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Shigella bacteria can override programmed cell death, thereby establishing a niche to spread. Credit: Hamid Kashkar, University of Cologne Certain bacteria can override a defense…
Insights from their study may provide a novel therapeutic approach for diseases such as Huntington’s and Parkinson’s. Associate Professor Roger Pocock, from the Monash Biomedicine…
One of the bioreactors that Kartal and his colleagues used to grow cells of K. stuttgartiensis in the lab. Anammox bacteria are packed with heme-containing…
Trent Northen, a Berkeley Lab co-author, analyzes a microbiome sample. Credit: Roy Kaltschmidt/Berkeley Lab Microbiomes play essential roles in the natural processes that keep the…
These are bacteria devastated by attack with the toxic arrowhead. Credit: T.E. Wood et al. (2019) A weapon bacteria use to vanquish their competitors could…
In satellite images, the algae carpets with their light streaks look like works of art. In the 70,000 square kilometre wide Deutsche Bucht alone, algal…
Copper bed rails. Credit: CopperBioHealth Copper Hospital Beds Kill Bacteria, Save Lives A new study has found that copper hospital beds in the Intensive Care…
Some of the most renowned classic Belgian beers, including Gueuze and Trappist ales, are fermented with a rare and unusual form of hybrid yeasts. An…
A scanning electron microscope (SEM) image of the polymer network that makes up mucins. Credit: Katharina Ribbeck Specialized sugar molecules called glycans can disarm opportunistic…
The flavors of fermented foods are heavily shaped by the fungi that grow on them, but the evolutionary origins of those fungi aren’t well understood.…
An illustration imagining the molecular machinery inside microbes as technology. Credit: Wayne Keefe/Berkeley Lab A new genetic engineering tool will help open the floodgates of…
Researchers discover that a protein in tiny tardigrades binds and forms a protective cloud against extreme survival threats such as radiation damage. Diminutive animals known…
Photomicrograph of pyritized stromatolites from the 3.5 billion-year-old Dresser Formation. The stromatolites are delineated by pyrite, also known as fool’s gold. Credit: UNSW Sydney Western…
Rod-shaped bacteria commonly found in the gut. A new study sheds light on how diet influence the way antibiotics affect gut bacteria populations. Credit: Belenky…
Most types of Escherichia coli are harmless, but the ones that aren’t can cause severe life-threatening diarrhea. These problematic bacteria launch infections by inducing intestinal cells to…
Sugar can silence a key protein required for colonization by a gut bacterium associated with lean and healthy individuals, according to a new Yale study…