There's a lot more than dirt to the soil in which plants grow.
There's a lot more than dirt to the soil in which plants grow.
Patterns of cell death aid in the formation of beneficial wrinkles during the development of bacterial biofilms.
Scientists set up a stakeout to track the movements of microbes around a new hospital.
Doctors turn to good microbes to fight disease. Will the same strategy work with crops?
Searching for life beyond our teeming planet has led to some innovative collaborative approaches to generating knowledge right here at home.
A recent roundtable discussion identifies challenges facing the scientific community regarding a lack of reproducible results in the literature.
An official investigation into a controversial GM rice study carried out with Chinese schoolchildren has resulted in the removal of three China-based researchers.
Long-term exposure to antibiotics from agricultural run off may encourage the evolution of soil bacteria that break down and consume the antibacterial agents.
The poxvirus stockpiles genes when it needs to adapt.
In the largest microbial eukaryote genetic sequencing effort ever attempted, researchers are investigating the transcriptomes of 700 marine algae species.