By tweaking bacteriophage genomes, MIT team creates a new weapon to combat infection.

Understanding more about how a microorganism produces methane and carbon dioxide could help scientists cut greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.

Researchers identify nearly 8,000 strains of bacteria, while also clarifying their genetic and metabolic context.

Around 2 billion years ago, there was a mass die-off of microbes. Researchers say it rivals the loss of life from the dinosaurs' extinction.

New method identifies ecologically and medically relevant bacteria groups.

Researchers identify a strategy to prevent mobile genetic elements from breaching the bacterial cell wall.

Microbes from salty, subzero waters in the Arctic could give researchers a glimpse of the kinds of environments where they might one day find alien life.

A warmer tundra means more greenhouse gases from microbes, new research shows. That's bad news for fighting climate change.

Study finds that competition between bacterial species can be upended when conditions deteriorate.