The American Academy of Microbiology, the honorific leadership group and scientific think tank of the American Society for Microbiology (ASM), announced today the release of its landmark report ...

A new study by the Genomics and Microbial Evolution Group at the Miguel Hernández University of Elche (UMH) together with the ...

Some are vital to our bodies or food production; others cause destructive diseases. The field of microbiology contributes to biochemistry, cell biology, evolution, genetics, molecular biology, ...

Learn more about the microbes that take in PFAS, the harmful, long-lasting chemicals that can hang out in the human body for ...

A research team at the University of Münster has investigated for the first time how the confrontation of bacteria with hosts ...

When we think of evolution, we think of slow, gradual changes in animal and plant species over millions, perhaps even ...

A new study suggests the platypus and echidna — the only egg-laying mammals — had a water-dwelling ancestor. The finding could upend what’s known of their evolution.

Scientists have documented the way a single gene in the bacterium that causes bubonic plague, Yersinia pestis, allowed it to survive hundreds of years by adjusting its virulence and the length of ...

5 fun facts about evolution. The last common ancestor of all life on Earth is estimated to have existed around 4.2 billion years ago.; There are three ingredients necessary for natural selection ...