Movies and dramas often depict police officers cowering before powerful gangsters, acting like subordinates, yet becoming ...

Microbial communities are considered particularly diverse—in soil, water and the human body. A common assumption in ecology ...

We have become much more aware of all of the surfaces we touch daily and what kinds of germs can be on them. The Microbiology Lab at the Medical College of Georgia conducted an experiment with ...

Researchers tested 39 commonly used sweeteners on 25 different types of gut bacteria in laboratory experiments.Many ...

A combination of machine learning and lab experiments has given researchers a peek into the different languages bacteria use to communicate. Understanding how bacteria communicate—and when they ...

There has been much theoretical debate about whether and how organisms can evolve to become better at evolving, but now a team of researchers has made it happen in a lab – and documented almost every ...

Do bacteria mutate randomly, or do they mutate for a purpose? Researchers have been puzzling over this conundrum for over a century. In 1943, microbiologist Salvador Luria and physicist turned ...