Scientists at the University of Galway have created APOLLO, the largest-ever digital microbiome collection, with 247,092 ...

The Human Virome Program will analyze samples from thousands of volunteers in an effort to understand how viruses affect health.

Just as the human body serves as a habitat for bacteria and other microbes, diverse, tiny organisms known as protists host ...

Nanotube bridge networks grow between the most abundant photosynthetic bacteria in the oceans, suggesting that the world is ...

Biofilms are clusters of microorganisms that stick to non-biological surfaces, such as rocks in a stream, as well as to surfaces on plants (roots) or in animals (epithelium). These clusters are ...

Sulfate-reducing bacteria (SRB) have a unique ability to respire under anaerobic ... the abandonment of impacted oil wells. The sessile cells in biofilms are 1,000 times more resistant to biocides and ...

heme (used in membrane-bound succinate dehydrogenase), and other components related to the cell membrane or extracellular structures were detected (Supplementary Table 2). The Sec secretion system, ...

The cell wall provides structural support and protection, while the capsule, found in some bacteria, plays a crucial role in resisting host immune attacks, adaptation to new niches and pathogenesis.

Whilst the ultimate outcome of the lytic cycle is production of new phage progeny and death of the host bacterial cell, this is a multistep process involving precise coordination of gene transcription ...

Neurons are cells in the body that are responsible for transmitting electrical signals through the nervous system. Different types of neurons affect the ability to move, which begins as an impulse, or ...

In the quest to take the “forever” out of “forever chemicals,” bacteria might be our ally. Most remediation of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) involves adsorbing and trapping them, but ...