The bacterium Rhodococcus ruber eats and actually digests plastic. This has been shown in laboratory experiments by Ph.D. student Maaike Goudriaan at Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research (NIOZ ...

Do bacteria mutate randomly, or do they mutate for a purpose? Researchers have been puzzling over this conundrum for over a century. In 1943, microbiologist Salvador Luria and physicist turned ...

The team estimates that in large-scale bioreactors, engineered microbes could accelerate carbon removal and provide ...

Automation uncovers combinations of amino acids that feed two bacterial species and could tell us much more about the 90% of bacteria that humans have hardly studied. An artificial intelligence system ...

We have become much more aware of all of the surfaces we touch daily and what kinds of germs can be on them. The Microbiology Lab at the Medical College of Georgia conducted an experiment with ...

Experiments and modeling reveal the unexpected structure that can be seen in bacteria grown in mucus samples and biofilms. Scientists at Caltech and Princeton University have discovered that bacterial ...

New research from Indiana University has uncovered a previously unknown vulnerability in how bacteria build the whip-like ...

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(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Qi Zheng, Texas A&M University (THE CONVERSATION) Do bacteria mutate randomly, or do ...