Humans throughout history have invented a variety of ways to fight back against troublesome bacteria. But bacteria live in a ...

Researchers at Gladstone Institutes have uncovered an unusual bacterial immune system that operates in reverse of known ...

Bacteria and the viruses that infect them—known as phages—coexist in soils, oceans and living organisms. Scientists have long thought this coexistence reflects a microscopic version of an evolutionary ...

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 ...

Scientists are sending several strains of disease-causing bacteria to the International Space Station as part of the Crew-11 mission. This experiment isn't the plot to some cheesy horror film, but a ...

Persat's Microbial Mechanics Lab, working with the Mechanics of Soft and Biological Matter Laboratory of Sangwoo Kim, also at EPFL, has found that the bacterium Pseudomonas aeruginosa solves this ...

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We have become much more aware of all of the surfaces we touch daily and what kinds of germs can be on them. The Microbiology Lab at the Medical College of Georgia conducted an experiment with ...

A hard downpour looks better equipped to throw material from the ground. Yet for one microscopic route into the air, a gentler impact can work better. When a raindrop lands on porous soil, it can trap ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Qi Zheng, Texas A&M University (THE CONVERSATION) Do bacteria mutate randomly, or do ...