Report offers guidelines to help prevent viruses from tainting biopharmaceutical drugs.

Microneedles made of silk-based material can target plant tissues for delivery of micronutrients, hormones, or genes.

When they encounter nutrient oases in the marine desert, marine bacteria release a gas involved in climate regulation.

A variety of MIT research projects could aid efforts to detect and prevent the spread of coronavirus.

Simple chip powered by quantum dots allows standard microscopes to visualize difficult-to-image biological organisms.

A deep-learning model identifies a powerful new drug that can kill many species of antibiotic-resistant bacteria.

Study finds microbes can alter an environment dramatically before dying out.

Research underscores infection is not a common hospital transmission.

MIT sophomore Rachel Shen looks for microscopic solutions to big environmental challenges.

Deborah Hung shares research strategies to combat tuberculosis as part of the Department of Biology's IAP seminar series on microbes in health and disease.