A collection of microbial specimens gathered from a cave located in Romania has displayed a variety of similarities to ...

In the oceans and on land, scientists are discovering rare, transitional organisms that bridge the gap between Earth’s simplest cells and today’s complex ones.

On the ISS, viruses can still infect bacteria, but the process slows and pushes both organisms to evolve along different paths ...

A global atlas mapping two key gut bacteria in infants around the world has uncovered a treasure trove of bacterial strains ...

Scientists propose that eukaryotes formed when an Asgard archaeon entered into a close partnership with an alphaproteobacterium. Over time, the two organisms became permanently linked. The ...

Life on Earth may have learned to breathe oxygen long before oxygen filled the skies. MIT researchers traced a key oxygen-processing enzyme back hundreds of millions of years before the Great ...

Your gut bacteria are constantly sensing, moving, and sharing nutrients to keep the microbiome thriving.

Antimicrobial resistance is a growing threat to public health, but these cryogenically frozen germs might be more of a help than a hindrance.

Bacteria have evolved to adapt to all of Earth's most extreme conditions, from scorching heat to temperatures well below zero ...

German Leibniz Institute DSMZ makes WHO-listed fungi available to researchers worldwide BRAUNSCHWEIG, LOWER SAXONY ...

Penn State College of Medicine is reporting on two cases of destructive infant meningitis linked to Paenibacillus infection, ...

Microbiologists Patrick Moreira and Purificación López-García, together with virologists Arturo Ludmir and Lynn Enquist, are at the center of a sharp debate over whether viruses count as living ...