Bacteria have long been a key source of lifesaving antibiotics, but most species cannot be grown in the lab—leaving their ...

A protein historian and evolutionary biochemist found that a protein sequence present across all known life didn’t form as ...

Microbes in water are like invisible travelers—and some carry disease with them. Keeping the water that flows through our ...

A collection of short dispatches from the field of climate microbiology conveys the contributions that single-celled life ...

An international team of scientists led by researchers from the MRC Laboratory of Medical Sciences (LMS), Imperial College London, and the University of Cologne discovered that microbes associated ...