Zhang You of the Entomological Society of China took first place with an image of a rice weevil—an agricultural pest—on a ...

University of Cambridge scientists have used human stem cells to create three-dimensional embryo-like structures that ...

Cryo-electron microscopy and tomography are transforming structural biology, offering unprecedented insights into ...

Electron microscope image of fission yeast cells used in study (Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology via Eurekalert ...

Long before plants and algae, cyanobacteria were already performing photosynthesis—filling Earth's skies with oxygen and ...

High-content high-resolution microscopy coupled with deep learning-based analysis reveals novel phenotypes at the single-cell level during Shigella infection.

University of Toronto researchers have made the first discovery of a virus that infects Legionella pneumophila, the bacteria ...

Midtown Beach is back under a no-swim advisory, after an Oct. 6 Florida Department of Health in Palm Beach County water-quality sample again found high levels of enterococci bacteria, said a Palm ...

Nightmare bacteria are very much the stuff of waking life. These microbes pose a “triple threat” to humanity because they are “resistant to all or nearly all antibiotics,” they have “high mortality ...

Stunning images reveal for the first time how antibiotics pierce deadly bacteria’s armor. British scientists have shown how life-saving drugs called polymyxins puncture the defenses of harmful bugs.

Some eukaryotes consist of a single cell; but most single-celled creatures are made of simpler cells which lack obvious subdivisions and in which membranes are used almost exclusively to define the ...