A organism living in ocean muck offers clues to the origins of the complex cells of all animals and plants.
Tag: Microbiology
Why Are These Medical Instruments So Tough to Sterilize?
Duodenoscopes have sickened hundreds of patients in hospital outbreaks. Now some experts are demanding the devices be redesigned or taken off the market.
Wired Bacteria Form Nature’s Power Grid: ‘We Have an Electric Planet’
Electroactive bacteria were running current through “wires” long before humans learned the trick.
Breast Milk Is Teeming With Bacteria — That’s Good for the Baby
Breast-fed milk may nourish a baby’s microbiome in ways that bottled breast milk can’t.
Global Health: A Silver Bullet Against the Brain-Eating Amoeba?
Minuscule particles coated with anti-seizure drugs seem to halt microbes that feed on brain tissue.
Deep Beneath Your Feet, They Live in the Octillions
The real journey to the center of the Earth has begun, and scientists are discovering subsurface microbial beings that shake up what we think we know about life.