AIST researchers, in collaboration with JAMSTEC, Hokkaido University and Tohoku University, have succeeded in cultivating an ...

Researchers have succeeded in cultivating an ultra-small bacterial strain parasitizing archaea and classified it as new species and genus of Minisyncoccus archaeiphilus.

Astrobiologists in Germany are developing a new testing device that could help tease dormant alien microbes into revealing ...

Archaea form one of the three domains of life; the others are bacteria and eukaryotes. MatE-Tlp system regulates substrate uptake and methane metabolism in Methermicoccus shengliensis, providing ...

Sepsis, a life-threatening organ dysfunction, is responsible for an estimated 1 in 5 deaths globally and 1 in 3 deaths that ...

Many of us pay attention to the foods we're putting in our bodies—asking ourselves whether they're nutritious and healthy for ...

Finding life in outer space is one of the great endeavors of humankind. One approach is to find motile microorganisms that ...

Methanotrophic Bacteria Methanotrophs might be small, but they pack a powerful punch when it comes to turning methane, a ...

Biological scientists have uncovered how the dengue virus uses its envelope protein to capture human plasmin from a blood meal to enhance the permeability of the mosquito midgut for infection.

A healthier brain could one day be just a snort away: bacteria that colonize the nose have been engineered to ferry drugs to the brains of mice. “Drugs often don’t get to where they need to go ...

The road to becoming a cheese connoisseur is never a straight line, but we'll point you in the right direction with these ...

A team of marine biologists in Tenerife, Canary Islands, have caught on video a rare black devil fish for the first time in ...