Some microbes can squeeze through tight spaces by wrapping themselves in their flagellum—the tail-like structure they use to ...

A nne Madden is a self-proclaimed “microbe wrangler.” Her inner explorer and scientist emerged during her undergraduate years at Wellesley College, during an internship in Costa Rica. Surrounded by ...

Deep in coastal mangroves and even inside our own mouths, biologists are finding that DNA does not always sit in a simple loop at the cell’s center. A giant microbe called Thiovulum imperiosus has now ...

Invisible in their trillions, microbes dwell in our bodies, grow in soils, live on trees and are integral to planetary health ...

It's tiny and needy, but is it alive? That's a question prompted by recent research that highlights a surprisingly complex part of biology. The organism in question is a microbe called Sukunaarchaeum ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. microscope image shows cells on a black background, visible by their white/green outlines. from left to right, they go from being ...

A group of gut bacteria successfully hindered recurrent Clostridium difficile infection in mice, offering alternative therapeutic strategies to antibiotics and fecal transplant. To investigate whether ...