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.