Doctors turn to good microbes to fight disease. Will the same strategy work with crops?
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 roundup of species that made their scientific debut in 2012, and a few that said goodbye as well
Long-term exposure to antibiotics from agricultural run off may encourage the evolution of soil bacteria that break down and consume the antibacterial agents.
A graduate student rediscovers a snail species officially declared extinct in 2000.
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.
Researchers uncover a diverse microbial community living beneath 27 meters of ice in Antarctica’s Lake Vida.
Decades can pass between the discovery of a new animal or plant and its official debut in the scientific literature.
A new study reveals a large mix of microbes in most human belly buttons.