Introverts take heart: When cells, like some people, get too squished, they can go into defense mode, even shutting down photosynthesis. In a study published today, a team at CU Boulder took advantage ...

Cyanobacteria colonizing the feather moss Pleurozium schreberi were isolated from moss samples collected in northern Sweden and subjected to physiological and molecular characterization. Morphological ...

Bacteria often live in multicellular communities known as biofilms. Unlike their planktonic counterparts, bacteria in biofilms are encapsulated in an extracellular matrix, a complex mixture of ...

For two consecutive weeks, Sarah Hurley slept in her car parked outside her working lab. Cyanobacteria cells as seen under the microscope. Doc. RNDr. Josef Reischig, CSc., CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia ...

For two consecutive weeks, Sarah Hurley slept in her car parked outside her working lab. Cyanobacteria cells as seen under the microscope. Doc. RNDr. Josef Reischig, CSc., CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia ...

Long before plants and algae, cyanobacteria were already performing photosynthesis—filling Earth's skies with oxygen and setting the stage for life as we know it. The ultra-prevalent bacteria are ...

Cyanobacteria first evolved to perform photosynthesis about 2.4 billion years ago, pumping tons of oxygen into the atmosphere - a period known as the Great Oxygenation Event - which enabled the ...

After the Deepwater Horizon disaster in 2010, microbes in the Gulf of Mexico devoured a major portion of the hydrocarbons released by the gushing deep-sea well. A new study offers an explanation for ...

New Brunswick is seeing more reports of cyanobacteria blooms in provincial waterways, researchers say. Meghann Bruce, a biologist at University of New Brunswick's Canadian River Institute, said there ...