Nanoparticles could offer a new way to help eradicate the disease worldwide.

MIT professor sees many “big, deep questions in biology” that benefit from study by both physicists and life scientists.

With aid of computer algorithm, researchers develop peptides more powerful than those found in nature.

Network tracks the evolution of microbial communities in sourdough starter mixtures shared around the world.

Interactions among microorganisms account for nitrite accumulation just below the sunlit zone, with implications for oceanic carbon and nitrogen cycling.

Scientists conclude methane-producing microbes date back 3.5 billion years, supporting the hypothesis that they could have contributed to early global warming.

New discovery suggests that all life may share a common design principle.