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

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

When most people think of parasites affecting their pets, they imagine heartworms in dogs or roundworms in cats. However, ...

A scientific breakthrough that could reshape biology as we know it is now at the center of a heated debate. Mirror bacteria, ...

Strategy for discovering protist – bacterial interactions in the ocean. The strategy relied on working at-sea where uncultivated cells could be interrogated without any form of fixation. The cartoon ...

Leibniz Institute DSMZ provides bacterium from laboratory animal-free cultivation The Leibniz Institute DSMZ-German Collection of Microorganisms and Cell Cultures has added the syphilis pathogen to ...

Around the world, though, there's a growing threat to lakes: toxic bacteria which turn the water green. Autophagy is the process by which cells digest and renew their internal structures ...

Sequencing bacterial genomes allows scientists to study bacterial diversity, immunity, and the human microbiome, but it ...

A CRISPR-based system that erases itself from fly populations may offer a safer approach to tackling insecticide resistance while minimizing ecological risks.