Virus-built silver appears much more effective against bacteria than commercial silver. In A Nutshell Lab safety tests showed ...

Do bacteria mutate randomly, or do they mutate for a purpose? Researchers have been puzzling over this conundrum for over a century. In 1943, microbiologist Salvador Luria and physicist turned ...

Bacteria-scale robots that can run for months without human control are no longer a lab fantasy. Researchers have now built ...

While a common family of bacteria, Comamonadaceae, grow on plastics in urban rivers and wastewater systems, it was unclear how these bacteria interact with and break down plastic. Professor Ludmilla ...

Oral bacteria that migrate to the gut can generate metabolites that reach the brain and accelerate Parkinson’s disease.

Microbes, whether in our environment or on our bodies, exist in communities where individual members influence each other. To better understand the dynamics of these multi-species communities, ...

Do they become “snowbirds” and relocate to warmer climates until spring? Do they hibernate like bears? Or do they continue to do the jobs they do so well, waiting for spring and fresh plantings to ...

A broiler chicken sips water from a water line in a poultry growing house. A study by researchers with the Arkansas Agricultural Experiment Station and the Mississippi Agricultural and Forestry ...