Microbiology

The Promise and Challenges of Phage Therapy

Can we use bacteria’s natural enemies to fight them?

How Serendipity Changed Our World

We are all to thank Fleming for his forgetfulness!

Fact Snippets: A Virus to End Us All

The looming threat that is the Marburg Virus

Evolution in Asgard and the Rise of Complex Life

Researchers manage to culture Asgard archaea and find…

What makes you alive, what is consciousness and why life wants to survive?

How Some Bacteria Hunt in Packs

A new study reveals the strategy of the pack-hunting bacterium…

The Tiny Being That Hunts Deadly Giant Viruses

Only recently discovered, it defies all of our…

How the Squid and the Bacterium Talk to Each Other

A new study reveals a small molecule that allows…

The Microbiome and Disease: Beware the Confounders!

A new study cautions for overeagerly linking the…