microbes
Many More Viruses Revealed Below the Seafloor
Microbiologist Karen Lloyd (DCO Executive Committee, University of Tennessee Knoxville, USA…
Proteins are finely tuned, specialized “nanomachines” that catalyze necessary chemical reactions in…
Despite their bad reputation for being agents of disease, viruses play an important ecological role…
In 2017, an interdisciplinary group of early career scientists visited Costa Rica’s subduction zone…
Based on what we know of early Earth and the origin of life, scientists think that the first cells…
In the oxygen-free parts of lakes, hot springs, and marine environments worldwide, some microbes…
In 2009, researchers discovered a tiny nematode living happily in the water inside rock fractures,…
The evolution of Earth and the emergence of life during its first half-billion years are…
A diverse group of bacteria called Firmicutes, which can be found in human infections, fermented…
It’s tough for microbes to make a living in the cold, dark sediments beneath the seafloor.…