bacteria

As the afternoon breezes blow harder in the Atacama Desert—a place so desolate it’s used as a model of Mars—more microbes move into its driest regions.

Bacteria that take in inorganic carbon could have applications in sustainable biofuels.

This ancient red pigment came from underwater.

Aedes aegypti infected with Wolbachia—which inhibit transmission of the dengue virus from insect to human—were deployed in Indonesia, Vietnam, Brazil, and Australia.

See this year’s winners of the American Society for Microbiology’s agar art competition.

Metabolic disrupters, phages, and other approaches are going to be needed to treat the broadest possible range of patients infected by bacterial pathogens resistant to multiple drugs.

Cable bacteria can live in stirred-up sediments by associating with structures built by Chaetopterus variopedatus.

Microorganisms grown from a researcher’s hand are being used in an art contest.

A mysterious illness is causing tissue loss in many species.

The finding that a bacterium within a bacterium within an animal cell cooperates with the host on a biosynthetic pathway suggests the endosymbiont is, practically speaking, an organelle.

Bacteria grow and divide in microfluidic channels.

The Tufts University biologist and physician sounded the alarm on the effects of antibiotic use in animals.

Scientists cultivate sulfate-reducing microbes from some of the oldest-known water on Earth.

The 12-year-long endeavor reveals Prometheoarchaeum as a tentacled cell, living in a symbiotic relationship with methane-producing microbes.

Microbes that dwell in nutrient-poor waters use a photopigment called retinal to harvest energy from sunshine at levels at least equal to those stored by chlorophyll-based systems.

Swirls of bacteria form on an agar plate.

The gut microbiome has been linked to depression, schizophrenia, and other neurological conditions, but it’s not yet clear whether the relationship is causal.

The agency issued a safety warning after two patients contracted antibiotic-resistant infections and one of the patients died.

Scientists identify the coordinated sequence of pili movements that Pseudomonas aeruginosa use to move.