Weighing in at nearly 2 kilos, our gut bacteria seem to play an even bigger role than was previously thought. These bacteria ...

A team of researchers at the University of Illinois has created a space to view biological cells in 3D — and it’s on a ...

In biology textbooks, the endoplasmic reticulum is often portrayed as a distinct, compact organelle near the nucleus, and is ...

New research reveals that bacteria form species and maintain cohesion through frequent DNA exchange within species. This ...

In prokaryotic cells, DNA bundles together in a region called the nucleoid. Primitive organelles, such as micro-compartments found in some bacteria, help organize cellular processes by concentrating ...

A new ally is emerging in the increasingly urgent battle against superbugs – and you might have encountered it before at the ...

Evolution was fueled by endosymbiosis, cellular alliances in which one microbe makes a permanent home inside another. For the ...

Researchers at the VIB-KU Leuven Center for Microbiology and the VIB-KU Leuven Center for Brain & Disease Research have ...

A sugar produced by soil bacteria may be able to stop the loss of skin pigment caused by vitiligo.  | A sugar produced by ...

At universities and startups around the globe, researchers are searching for microbes that could be used as food.

With every bite of food we take, our intestinal immune system must make a big decision. Tasked with defending us from foreign ...

Light and electron microscopy have distinct limitations. Light microscopy makes it difficult to resolve smaller and smaller features, and electron microscopy resolves small structures, but samples ...