Human applications would require extensive additional research ... The findings suggest potential therapeutic strategies ...

Many bacteria can naturally produce plastic polymers, such as polyhydroxybutyrate (PHB). This easily biodegradable plastic performs much like polypropylene, and it is already being used in some ...

The oral microbiome is being linked to everything from metabolic disease to Alzheimer’s. This article first appeared in The Checkup, MIT Technology Review’s weekly biotech newsletter.

Astronauts are set to swab the space station's exterior, searching for living microbes to better understand how they survive in space.

A team of scientists from the Institute of Bio- and Geosciences - Biotechnology at Forschungszentrum Jülich worked together ...

Finding life in outer space is one of the great endeavors of humankind. One approach is to find motile microorganisms that ...

A bioactive compound produced by an extremophilic bacterium has potential industrial applications. An international collaboration of researchers has isolated a bioactive compound in extremophilic ...

Studying structures derived from extremophilic bacteria (able to thrive under ... resources from these substances with biotechnological applications. “We chose to study the hot springs in ...