Some microbes can squeeze through tight spaces by wrapping themselves in their flagellum—the tail-like structure they use to ...

How physically magnifying objects using a key ingredient in diapers has opened an unprecedented view of the microbial world.

A bacterium best known for causing gum disease may also influence how breast cancer begins and spreads. A team at the Kimmel Cancer Center and the Bloomberg~Kimmel Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy r ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. microscope image shows cells on a black background, visible by their white/green outlines. from left to right, they go from being ...

Deep in coastal mangroves and even inside our own mouths, biologists are finding that DNA does not always sit in a simple loop at the cell’s center. A giant microbe called Thiovulum imperiosus has now ...

It's tiny and needy, but is it alive? That's a question prompted by recent research that highlights a surprisingly complex part of biology. The organism in question is a microbe called Sukunaarchaeum ...

A group of gut bacteria successfully hindered recurrent Clostridium difficile infection in mice, offering alternative therapeutic strategies to antibiotics and fecal transplant. To investigate whether ...

A nne Madden is a self-proclaimed “microbe wrangler.” Her inner explorer and scientist emerged during her undergraduate years at Wellesley College, during an internship in Costa Rica. Surrounded by ...

Some recent studies have suggested that there is a link between severe gum disease or periodontitis, and some disorders that affect the central nervous system, because periodontitis can lead to ...