Bacteria are not only crucial for human health, but they also play important roles in environmental processes and agriculture ...

Renowned biologist Bonnie Bassler explores bacterial communication's potential to revolutionize medicine and enhance our ...

Albert Bartlett was born in Shanghai in 1923, worked on the Manhattan Project at Los Alamos, got his PhD from Harvard, and spent his career as a physics professor at the University of Colorado. But he ...

James Fraser, PhD, delivers the 2020 Byers Award Lecture in Basic Science, a talk titled “A Song of Ice and Fire: Visualizing Macromolecules Using Cold Electrons and Hot X-Rays.” Photo by Sonya Yruel ...

An insect ecology professor at the University of Kentucky explored her research on how bacteria affects spider reproduction during a March 20 lecture. The researcher, Jen White, presented her findings ...

The UAB Department of Microbiology will host the 2025 Susan Roberts Dubay Endowed Lecture on Oct. 14, welcoming Lora Hooper, Ph.D., as this year’s keynote speaker presenting, “Vitamin A and barrier ...

Caves, by their nature, lack light and are isolated underground. Yet, it is the isolated, nutrient-limited nature of these environments that make them so fascinating to study. Caves contain remarkable ...

A. Water microbiology is the _____ _____. This is done to determine what organisms are present, and if they are helpful or harmful. B. The safety of water for drink and contact is the main ...

a. A nitrogen-free medium _____ contain an inorganic source of nitrogen. Therefore, organisms that can live on this medium must be able to utilize _____. b. Take a heavy inoculum of the nitrogen-free ...

Researchers in the Raman Lab at UW recently published a study discussing sending microbes into space at the International ...

I gave a talk at the President’s Forum at the annual meeting of the American Society for Microbiology in May about how I go about telling stories about science. The folks at ASM have done some slick ...