The project provides a baseline for tracking microbial-population shifts with land-use changes and global warming.

Hyderabad: Researchers who earlier identified a petroleum-eating bacterium in Nacharam have now decoded its entire genome, ...

Our second winter storm of the season made its way through Siouxland on Saturday, bringing more snow to the area.

Bioinformatics and microbial taxonomy experts introduce the challenges of defining bacterial species in an era of rapidly ...

"Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature's inexorable imperative," wrote H. G. Wells. This principle—that survival requires ...

Hyperthermophilic archaea are true survival experts. They thrive in boiling hot springs and deep-sea vents—environments ...

It was 2012 when Love Dalén, a paleogeneticist at Stockholm University, first laid eyes upon a special specimen on a lab table in eastern Siberia. "Our Russian collaborators said, 'Come here into this ...