The findings suggest that chemical variables like oxygen levels and water availability are active drivers of microbial evolution, not merely passive background factors.

Certain antibiotic-resistant infections could be treated with precision medicine in the future, thanks to a new resource mapping plasmids − the ultimate vehicle of rapid bacterial evolution.

Scientists reveal that early-life gut microbiome development follows universal patterns, paving the way for new benchmarks in child health assessments.

Scientists Re-Create the Microbial Dance That Sparked Complex Life Evolution was fueled by endosymbiosis, cellular alliances in which one microbe makes a permanent home inside another. For the first ...

A new study published in Nature unveils the mysterious world of microbial life shaping the rivers that millions of Americans depend on for drinking water. The research spans waterways across the ...

Visscher says these findings emphasize our need to rethink how we look at the evolution of life on Earth, because slime played, and continues to play, a huge role.

In a new article published in Molecular Biology and Evolution, researchers from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Vanderbilt University reveal the evolutionary history of secreted iron ...

New insights into microbial evolution Article by Erica K. Brockmeier Photos by Evan Krape and courtesy of Terry Papoutsakis and John Hill | Photo illustration by Joy Smoker January 12, 2024 UD ...

Often, the genes that are being shared confer resistance to a drug, and once a bacterial cell gains the ability, antibiotic resistance can easily spread through populations of microbial cells. Now ...

The ability to share genetic material is the major driver of microbial evolution because it can transform a benign bacterium into a deadly pathogen in an instant.