Microbiology & Virology

4+ hour, 3+ min ago   (946+ words) The Martin Institute for Public Good This summer, a team of seven students joined their professor on the front lines of the high-stakes battle between antibiotics and bacteria. “There are two things we can do about it,” Biology Professor Bryan…...

1+ hour, 11+ min ago   (630+ words) For many years, scientists knew of individual bacteria that could break down pieces of fucoidan. But one fundamental question remained unanswered: Could a microbial community break it down completely, and if so, how? A new open-access study published in Nature,…...

17+ hour, 4+ min ago   (1442+ words) Bioprocess Online Guest Column | September 14, 2026 6 Modeling Approaches That Make Complex Bioprocess Data Useful By William Whitford, Oamaru BioSystems A model is any representation of a real system that preserves those characteristics relevant to a particular purpose. Models have assumed many…...

23+ hour, 57+ min ago   (832+ words) Some proteins that vanished millions of years ago may still have something to teach scientists about fighting modern infections. University of Oregon biologists have reconstructed antimicrobial molecules dating back as far as 160 million years, and laboratory tests showed that some…...

1+ day, 4+ hour ago   (565+ words) Futura, le média qui explore le monde Why the search for alien life might start in lunar soil A different kind of technosignature Searching for radio signals assumes alien civilizations are broadcasting at the precise moment humanity is listening. Pinault’s…...

1+ day, 7+ hour ago   (1023+ words) Researchers reconstructed ancient versions of a bacteria-killing protein found in tears and breast milk, and some were more powerful than the human version. Tears, saliva and breast milk all carry a protein that holds iron away from bacteria, which need…...

1+ day, 14+ hour ago   (410+ words) Sep 13, 2026, 07:00 AM FR · ES · DE · PT Some shadowed areas of the lunar South Pole could keep microbes from Earth alive, despite an environment considered extremely hostile. This possibility emerges from a study conducted by researchers from NASA and the University…...

1+ day, 22+ hour ago   (363+ words) This week’s cover of the international journal 'Science' features a scene of 'rotavirus' invading a cell. Rotavirus is a virus that causes acute gastroenteritis, leading to severe vomiting, watery diarrhea, fever, and other symptoms in infants and young children. Viruses…...

1+ day, 12+ hour ago   (521+ words) Bacteria are famous for forming patterns, from the concentric rings of Proteus colonies to the branching networks that motile microbes paint across agar plates. Now researchers at Columbia University have turned one of biology’s most familiar workhorses, Escherichia coli, into…...

1+ day, 12+ hour ago   (80+ words) Bacterial wilt, caused by the soil-borne pathogen Ralstonia solanacearum, is one of the most destructive plant diseases in the world, striking tomatoes, potatoes, bananas and hundreds of other crops. Once the bacterium establishes itself in a field, it is notoriously…...