Millions of tons of plastic waste accumulate in landfills and oceans every year. One promising response is to engineer ...

Researchers have developed TRACS, a genomic algorithm that can distinguish whether microbes were directly transmitted between people or came from a shared source. Tested on viruses, bacteria, and ...

Researchers created a powerful tool to trace how microbes spread between people, improving outbreak tracking and disease ...

The research, published on April 24th, 2026, in Nature Microbiology, describes how the new tool, called TRAnsmision ...

From microscope mastery to safe culture handling, microbiology lab skills are the foundation of diagnosing and understanding microbes. The CDC’s Microbiology eLearning Series offers interactive ...

A review in Quantitative Biology demonstrates that scientists can now reliably build and combine very large pieces of DNA, ...

Scientists have long known that our skin is home to vast communities of bacteria, fungi and viruses. But knowing which microbes are present only tells part of the story. What matters just as much is ...

About seven years ago, Aaron Silverbook and his then-girlfriend, a biologist, were perusing old scientific literature online. “A romantic evening,” joked Silverbook. That night, he came across a study ...

With so many coral reefs bleaching and pangolins being poached, it may seem tone-deaf to call for the conservation of species that are too small to see with the naked eye. But that’s exactly what the ...