Results suggest many more similar systems exist to discover. No one had ever seen one virus latching onto another virus, until anomalous sequencing results sent…
Study on environmentally relevant microorganisms shows greater diversity than previously assumed. A team of researchers has shown that there is an incredibly high biodiversity of…
Microorganisms leverage the CRISPR-Cas system as a defense mechanism against viral intrusions. In the realm of genetic engineering, this microbial immune system is repurposed for…
In recent research from Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences, it’s revealed that coccolithophores, a type of phytoplankton crucial to the ocean-atmosphere carbon cycle, can survive…
An international research team is investigating nanowires in methane-producing and consuming microbes to understand how these filaments enable electron exchange, which determines methane production or…
Scientists have discovered new microscopic species. Researchers have found a number of very rare species of microorganisms, some of which have never been observed before…
Microbes and Minerals May Have Set Off Earth’s Oxygenation Scientists propose a new mechanism by which oxygen may have first built up in the atmosphere….
Lake is dominated by bacteria from a single ‘extremophile’ genus. A few specialist microbes survive conditions analogous to those of Mars’ early history, reports a…
Scientists at the University of Bristol have developed new biological parts that are able to shape the flow of cellular processes along DNA. The work,…
When significant oxygen entered the atmosphere, ancient life multiplied. But after a few hundred million years, Earth’s oxygen plummeted, resulting in a die-off likely greater…
Complex systems of microscopic tunnels found inside garnet crystals from Thailand are most likely the result of microorganisms making their homes inside these minerals, according…
A new analysis of the oldest known fossil microorganisms provides strong evidence to support an increasingly widespread understanding that life in the universe is common….
A newly published study details microbial life on a sand grain: from bulk sediment to single grains. Just imagine, you are sitting on a sunny…
Scientists from UCLA have discovered an organism that hasn’t evolved in more than 2 billion years. An international team of scientists has discovered the greatest…
Researchers from the WISSARD project have discovered an active ecosystem of microorganisms that live beneath the Antarctic ice sheet, converting ammonium and methane into the…
With microbes outnumbering human cells by 10 to 1, the Human Microbiome Project (HMP) Consortium looks at how these microorganisms coexist with their human hosts…
According to a newly published study, many autistic children harbor Sutterella bacteria in their digestive tract, contrary to non-autistic children. While this research provides a…