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

The search for alien life could be boosted by a simple new test, say scientists. They believe the movement of microbes may ...

Researchers have now developed a simple test that could get us closer to the answer. The new method involves looking for ...

A new chemotaxis-based method could revolutionize the search for extraterrestrial life by detecting microbes movement on Mars ...

The search for alien life could be boosted by a simple new test, say scientists. They believe the movement of microbes may help detect life on Mars and beyond - in a "cheaper and faster" way than ...

It’s important to note that researchers are likely at least 10 to 30 years away from creating mirror bacteria. On the timescale of a fast-moving field like synthetic biology, a decade is a very long ...

Just as the human body serves as a habitat for bacteria and other microbes, diverse, tiny organisms known as protists host ...

To assess the interdependency between archaea and bacteria, we conducted an antibiotic susceptibility ... We did the 1e6 times to try to find all possible minimal media (i.e., we used the argument ...

In new research published this week, a team led by Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) scientists reveals that symbiotic bacteria often accompany single-celled protists in the ocean’s upper layer. Some ...

Microbial genetics is the study of the mechanisms of heritable information in microorganisms, including bacteria, archaea ... via different mechanisms, and find that each mechanism is ...