Most bacteria cannot be cultured in the lab—and that's been bad news for medicine. Many of our frontline antibiotics ...

Whether dead or alive, soil microorganisms play a major role in the biogeochemical cycling of carbon in the terrestrial biosphere. But what is the specific role of death for the bacteria, fungi and ...

Bacteria have long been a key source of lifesaving antibiotics, but most species cannot be grown in the lab—leaving their ...

In an unprecedented breakthrough, artificial intelligence has been instrumental in unearthing twelve new antibiotics from ...

Bacteria and other microorganisms are abundant throughout soils and deep into the ground and serve an essential role in the global ecosystem through various biochemical processes, particularly ...

Antibiotic-resistant bacteria are already directly responsible for the deaths of an estimated 1.27 million people every year, and these challenging infections contribute to the deaths of millions more ...

Scientists at North Carolina State University have developed a method to precisely edit a single gene in a targeted bacterial species within a microbial community, using viruses that attack bacteria ...

NEW YORK — A germ that causes a rare and sometimes deadly disease — long thought to be confined to tropical climates — has been found in soil and water in the continental United States, U.S. health ...

Diesel-polluted soil from now defunct military outposts in Greenland can be remediated using naturally occurring soil bacteria according to an extensive five-year experiment in Mestersvig, East ...