A deep-sea bacteria could be the answer to cleaning up decades-old oil spills in weeks After a disastrous deep-sea oil spill, a bacteria was discovered at great ocean depths, feasting on the oil.

Microbiology is the study of microscopic organisms, such as bacteria, viruses, archaea, fungi and protozoa. This discipline includes fundamental research on the biochemistry, physiology ...

Current optical and electron microscopy imaging techniques are not suited for measuring the dynamic characteristics of living microorganisms at tiny scales due to complex sample preparation methods or ...

Although several studies have already demonstrated this in the case of yeasts (microscopic, single-celled fungi with nuclei), the case of bacteria (micro-organisms that are mainly single-celled ...

Many of the physiological characteristics of biofilm formation — for example, localized clusters of bacteria adhering to a substratum that are more resistant to antibiotic therapy — are ...

A research team at Shandong First Medical University in China has now developed a solution that actively hunts down and destroys resistant bacteria. They created microscopic particles that combine the ...