As the world watches the Olympics, the journal Nature Microbiology hosted the Microbial Olympics. Here are some highlights from this year’s Microbial Olympics events: (1) Synchronized swarming: ...
This post is part of the Meet a Microbe series on the blog. Check it out to meet other microbes! “Life has evolved to thrive in environments that are extreme only by our limited human standards:...
“You can either embrace the dirt and the germs as part of the risky joy of living in an exciting, overpopulated metropolis, or you can spend lots of mental real estate obsessing over whether you...
“We are inhabited by as many as ten thousand bacterial species… Together, they are referred to as our microbiome — and they play such a crucial role in our lives that scientists like...
“When antibiotics first came out, nobody could have imagined we’d have the resistance problem we face today. We didn’t give bacteria credit for being able to change and adapt so fast.” -Bo...