Some 95% of microbes remain mysterious because they can’t be grown in the lab. Yet researchers are keen to study these organisms and the potentially useful compounds they make. Tiny, semipermeable ...

Scientists have found that a common bacterium that usually lives in the mouth can help stomach cancer grow by feeding tumors with a substance they use as fuel. The discovery suggests that this ...

Pivot Bio’s core products are microscopic bacteria coated directly onto the seed. Once the crop starts growing, those ...

Cement manufacturing and repair could be significantly improved by using biocement-producing bacteria, but growing the microbes at construction sites remains a challenge. Now, researchers report a ...

Microbial ecosystems—for example, in seawater, the soil or in the human gut—are astonishingly diverse, but researchers often struggle to reproduce this diversity in the lab: Many microorganisms die ...

As concerns grow about the end of the antibiotic era due to proliferating strains of superbugs unhampered by drugs, promising advancements are emerging in the realm of antimicrobials. Researchers in ...

Georgia Tech researchers are teaming up with NASA to study bacteria on the International Space Station to help define how scientists and healthcare professionals combat antibiotic-resistant bacteria ...

Learn more about the microbes that consume plastic and how they could one day help clean up our ...

Scientists succeed in using bacteria and discarded bread to replace fossil fuels in an innovative sustainable industrial ...