Painting a fuller picture of how antibiotics kill

Machine learning reveals metabolic pathways disrupted by the drugs, offering new targets to combat resistance.

Anne Trafton | MIT News Office • mit
May 9, 2019 ~7 min

Microbes in the Pacific Ocean survive on arsenic

"...it just shows how much is still out there in the ocean that we don't know."

Hannah Hickey-UW • futurity
May 7, 2019 ~5 min


Microbes near volcanoes help store a whole bunch of CO2

New research shows "a new way that tiny microorganisms can have an outsized impact on a large-scale geological process and the Earth's climate."

Todd Bates-Rutgers • futurity
April 25, 2019 ~3 min

Designing ocean ecological systems in the lab

Associate Professor Otto Cordero and colleagues discover simple assembly rules for marine microbiomes.

Taylor De Leon | Civil and Environmental Engineering • mit
April 25, 2019 ~3 min

Electricity-eating microbes could make bioplastics

Researchers are working on "sustainable, carbon-neutral, and low-cost" bioplastics.

Talia Ogliore-WUSTL • futurity
April 12, 2019 ~3 min

New technique pinpoints milestones in the evolution of bacteria

Results show bacterial genomes provide “shadow history” of animal evolution.

Jennifer Chu | MIT News Office • mit
Feb. 7, 2019 ~7 min

Squid shed light on how bacteria-filled organs evolved

There may have been many evolutionary paths in the development of organs that host useful bacteria.

Harrison Tasoff-UC Santa Barbara • futurity
Feb. 4, 2019 ~4 min

Study: Much of the surface ocean will shift in color by end of 21st century

Climate-driven changes in phytoplankton communities will intensify the blue and green regions of the world’s oceans.

Jennifer Chu | MIT News Office • mit
Feb. 4, 2019 ~8 min


Technique identifies electricity-producing bacteria

Microbes screened with a new microfluidic process might be used in power generation or environmental cleanup.

Jennifer Chu | MIT News Office • mit
Jan. 11, 2019 ~7 min

Engineering "capture compounds" to probe cell growth

Researchers develop a method to investigate how bacteria respond to starvation and to identify which proteins bind to the “magic spot” — ppGpp.

Raleigh McElvery | Department of Biology • mit
Dec. 17, 2018 ~7 min

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