A discovery of legionella bacteria last week prompted the brief closure of three Maryland state office buildings in Baltimore ...

Participants at the Agar Art contest have many colors to choose from for their designs. The bacteria would then produce pigments after about 2 days. (Lillian Ercanbrack) Participants were ...

Nov. 4, 2024 — A research team has discovered two remarkable species of bacteria in the tissue of two deep-sea corals from the Gulf of Mexico. These previously unknown symbionts of the corals ...

“Plastics in wastewater treatment plants are colonised by microbial biofilms, or “plastispheres,” which can harbour pathogens, including Listeria, E. coli, Klebsiella pneumoniae, and Acinetobacter spp ...

Microorganisms—bacteria, viruses and other tiny life forms—may drive biological variation in visible life as much, if not ...

A strain of the bacterium Klebsiella pneumoniae isolated from an 86-year-old woman with a urinary infection admitted to ...

This important work advances our understanding of DNA methylation and its consequences for susceptibility to DNA damage. This work presents evidence that DNA methylation can accentuate the genomic ...

Geologists suggest the catastrophic impact of "S2" delivered key nutrients to the oceans, prompting microorganisms to thrive Margherita Bassi Pathogens are more common in polar bears living in the ...

These first microbes would have been extremely simple. Meanwhile, viruses degrade more easily than bacteria, so there are no physical fossils of viruses. Related: What was the first animal on Earth?