The rapid evolution of omic technologies such as spanning genomics, transcriptomics, and proteomics, is reshaping how we ...

Deep oceans contain microbes with yet-to-be-discovered properties that could drive future innovations in biotechnology.

Life in the Abyss: When Biology Bends the Rules This very question, highlighted in an early 2026 article in Vice and drawn ...

Yibin Zhu’s work highlights how microbiota from both the hosts and vectors can either promote or suppress virus transmission.

Decades-old hospital samples have helped University of East Anglia (UEA) researchers uncover how a deadly ...

Background The ocean harbors an immense, largely untapped diversity of microorganisms—bacteria, fungi, yeasts, thraustochytrids, and microalgae—whose ...

In all, the megacluster provides a sophisticated siege on an essential pathway in many bacteria, including Streptomyces’ foes ...

Oysters filter seawater for food. In the process, they concentrate a wide variety of microorganisms from their environment—including bacteria and viruses—into a tiny space.

The organic molecules could come from life or from ordinary chemistry — only samples returned to Earth can settle it.

Scientists exploring ancient seafloor rocks in Morocco discovered mysterious wrinkle patterns where they were never expected to occur. These structures are normally linked to microbial mats in shallow ...

We tend to view ourselves and the complex cells that build us as a distinct branch of the tree of life from the compact, seemingly featureless cells of bacteria and archaea. But we’ve found that our ...

Ötzi the Iceman, the well-preserved and well-studied mummy of a man who died 5,300 years ago, is a “dynamic ecosystem” of microbes, some of which have stayed viable for millennia, according to new ...