People have long said that "bread is life." Now, researchers at Tufts University are using the bubbling mixtures of flour and ...

The primary goal of the TOMI project is to help organic vegetable growers improve the productivity and sustainability of their tomato crops by developing new biologically-based approaches to manage ...

“Mirror bacteria” made in a lab could endanger all life on earth, an international group of leading scientists have warned in a new report. All building-block molecules of life like DNA, proteins and ...

A six-year analysis of marine microbes in coastal California waters has overturned long-held assumptions about how the ocean's smallest organisms interact. Researchers at UC San Diego’s Scripps ...

When microbial genomes are sequenced, computer pipeline annotation of the finished genome takes place to 1) predict where genes are located in the genome and 2) to assign function to genes if possible ...

A bacterial cell settles onto a nondescript surface. It is plump, healthy and functioning as it should. Nothing appears amiss ...

A research team at the University of Arizona College of Medicine – Tucson is developing a drug that works in combination with ...

stronauts onboard the International Space Station (ISS) are currently supporting two investigations sponsored by the U.S. National Laboratory that are focused on microbial research. The space ...