6 stories tagged microbiology, newest first.
52 points by gmays | 5 comments
University of Cambridge news article on research suggesting the spread of collagen-degrading enzymes to aerobic bacteria explains the decline of soft-bodied fossils after the Ediacaran.
390 points by jsomers | 123 comments
An essay by James Somers and Edwin Morris explaining how a single E. coli cell forages for nutrients through chemotaxis.
463 points by cainxinth | 105 comments
A Substack essay from Taxa about a notorious MIT milk carton and how certain bacteria can survive boiling water, framed as a probiotic paradox.
401 points by ascorbic | 280 comments
Nature news article about a new antibiotic molecule, found in soil from a technician's garden, that kills drug-resistant bacteria via a novel mechanism.
318 points by rbanffy | 122 comments
Quanta Magazine article on the discovery that fish have a brain microbiome and the controversial possibility that humans might too.
482 points by jsomers | 197 comments
An essay by James Somers and Edwin Morris explaining how a single E. coli cell forages for nutrients through chemotaxis, framed as an elemental form of intelligence.