A recent review finds that microalgal niches in freshwater ecosystems may concentrate antibiotic resistance genes, raising environmental and public health concerns.

Microplastics in soil can create tiny microbial hotspots, potentially reshaping soil health and the long-term sustainability ...

A recent study utilizing cryo-EM advances our understanding of how bacterial immune systems function and reveals new aspects ...

Affecting roughly half a million Americans each year, bacterial infections caused by Clostridioides difficile—commonly known ...

Some bacteria can take a punch that would crush a submarine. In a new set of impact tests, one desert microbe, Deinococcus ...

Affecting roughly half a million Americans each year, bacterial infections caused by Clostridioides difficile —commonly known as C. diff —are a serious and persistent problem for patients and ...

A famously resilient bacterium may be tough enough to survive one of the most violent events imaginable on Mars. In ...

Microplastics are widely recognized as pollutants in oceans and waterways, but scientists are increasingly discovering that ...

Exposure to fragments of microbes can program lung fibroblasts with a lasting epigenetic memory that blocks allergic inflammation. The findings suggest early microbial signals may prevent asthma, ...

Our single-celled ancestor lived in a world without plants, animals or oxygen-rich oceans. Yet, this seemingly simple microorganism took the first steps toward complex life. From this ancestor emerged ...

Wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) are upgraded to improve the quality of river water downstream, but the effects of such upgrades on aquatic ...

A remarkably hardy bacterium can survive pressures similar to those generated when asteroid impacts blast debris off Mars, a ...