A new study, combining powerful genomic-scale microscopy with a technical innovation, captured which genes bacteria turn on ...

By combining MERFISH imaging with expansion microscopy, researchers have unlocked a new way to study bacteria at the ...

A 20-year-old archive of water samples from Lake Mendota in Madison contributed to a “game-changing” study at The University ...

How do bacteria—harmless ones living in our bodies, or those that cause disease—organize their activities? A new study, ...

Nanotube bridge networks grow between the most abundant photosynthetic bacteria in the oceans, suggesting that the world is ...

Antibiotic resistance is a global public health crisis responsible for more than a million deaths annually. By 2050, the World Health Organization estimates it could surpass cancer and heart disease ...

In their analysis, the team found that bacterial isolate genomes represent 9.73% of the total estimated diversity of the available datasets. Efforts to recover MAGs by extracting data directly ...

“We took a deep dive into over 1.8 million bacterial and archaeal genomes to see how much of their diversity we’ve actually captured,” said co-first author Dongying Wu, a member of the Functional ...