Scientists warn, without good biosecurity measures ‘alien organisms’ on Earth may become a reality stranger than fiction. Published in international journal BioSciences, a team of…
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The danger isn’t from little green men arriving on flying saucers but, rather, from microbiological contamination of Earth from extraterrestrial environments and vice versa. The…
Researchers at Washington University in St. Louis have discovered a new way to train microbes to make a readily usable biofuel. A team of biologists…
Photo of the ruby that this study analyzed. Credit: University of Waterloo While analyzing some of the world’s oldest colored gemstones, researchers from the University…
Credit: Dr. Tim Blower, Durham University A new study led by a team of bioscientists from Durham University, UK, in collaboration with University of Liverpool,…
Visitors at a Shedd Aquarium exhibit. Credit: Shedd Aquarium/Brenna Hernandez Hungry microbes found responsible for stealing from Shedd Aquarium’s animals. For months, veterinarians put medicine…
A new body of research, published in Nature Communications, suggests synthetic biology could help to better characterize complex microbial communities, unlocking their potential for industrial…
V. cholerae’s growth and competition on natural surfaces (left). The framed area is zoomed-in on the right and shows the killing of a bacterium (indicated…
A new study shows oxygenic photosynthesis likely evolved between 3.4 and 2.9 billion years ago. Some time in Earth’s early history, the planet took a…
Adaptavate is developing biodegradable plasterboard that is made using crop waste instead of gypsum. Credit: Adaptavate Researchers at the University of Bath are investigating whether…
Illustration of where people can be infected by many (left) or a single (right) airborne particle. Single particle infections can occur far downwind. Credit: Lawrence…
Could Earth-based microbes survive a trip to MarsMars is the second smallest planet in our solar system and the fourth planet from the sun. Iron…
When it rains, plants are not only showered with water, but also microbes. These rain-borne microbes have the opportunity to become part of a plant’s…
Bacterial “miners” shown in relief working to process soil nutrients, some more efficiently than others. Bradyrhizobium is shown here consolidating its control of carbon from…
Figure 1: A photo showing 1,3-butadiene produced from bacteria. Credit: © 2021 Yokohama Rubber Microbes are engineered to convert sugar into a chemical found in…
This image shows what pollen looks like with Acinetobacter, a genus of bacteria common in flowers. Many of the pollen grains are germinating and bursting.…
Backscattered-electron (BSE) image of a botryoidal Pt-Pd nugget. Credit: Rogerio Kwitko-Ribeiro International drilling efforts over the last decades into the seafloor have provided increasing evidence…
Smruthi Karthikeyan, PhD (left) and Rob Knight, PhD (right) pick up wastewater samples from collection robots on the UC San Diego campus. Credit: Erik Jepsen/UC…
Beneficial Gut Bacteria. Credit: Darryl Leja, National Human Genome Research Institute, National Institutes of Health, NIH Fasting before and during exposure to Salmonella enterica bacteria…
Study authors (from left to right) Andrew K. Lau, Thomas Eng, and Deepanwita Banerjee stand in front of a two-liter bioreactor containing P. putida cells…