Wildfire smoke is teeming with them. Researchers have employed them to develop energy-dense biofuels like rocket, marine, and jet fuels. Scientists have engineered rice paddies that interact ...

Bacteria have developed sophisticated defense systems to protect themselves from the invasion of bacteriophages. Different defense strategies have been employed to prevent the proliferation of phages.

More than 80% of all known bacterial species are motile at some stage of their life cycle 1. These bacteria navigate toward nutrients or away from unfavorable environments through chemotaxis 2,3,4, ...

It’s easy to see why horizontal gene transfer would be common among microbes. They often live in complex communities that are ...