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Microbial Genetics
Microbial Genetics: is a subject area within microbiology and genetic engineering. Microbial genetics studies microorganisms for different purposes. The microorganisms that are observed are bacteria, and archaea. Some fungi and protozoa are also subjects used to study in this field.
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SEP 21, 2025Microbiology
Microbes have long been engaged in warfare; these cells have to find a place to survive and thrive, and collect enough n ...Written By: Carmen LeitchSEP 09, 2025Microbiology
The World Health Organization has estimated that in 2022, at least 149 million children under 5 were too short for their ...Written By: Carmen LeitchJUL 10, 2025Microbiology
Remnants of everything that humans ingest ends up in waste water, including medications that people may be taking, like ...Written By: Carmen LeitchJUL 07, 2025Microbiology
Scientists have discovered how a bacteria makes a kind of detergent, which could help eliminate some forms of pollution. ...Written By: Carmen LeitchJUL 04, 2025Microbiology
Octopuses have many amazing abilities and characteristics; they have huge brains and can solve puzzles; their ink can di ...Written By: Carmen LeitchJUN 30, 2025Cell & Molecular Biology
Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) is an umbrella term for the inflammatory disorders Crohn's disease and ulcerative colit ...Written By: Carmen LeitchJUN 29, 2025Microbiology
The gut microbiome has been associated with many heath conditions, and scientists are exploring the links between the gu ...Written By: Carmen LeitchJUN 09, 2025Genetics & Genomics
Bubonic plague has caused the deadliest pandemic in history: The Black Death, which killed as many as 50% of affected po ...Written By: Carmen LeitchMAY 27, 2025Earth & The Environment
The health of global oceans is under constant threat from harms like microplastics, oil spills, industrial pollution and ...Written By: Carmen LeitchMAY 14, 2025Microbiology
Bacterial cells have colonized every part of our world. But even though some can evade disinfectants to live in NASA cle ...Written By: Carmen LeitchMAR 18, 2025Microbiology
This work has also created a kind of "treasure map" that investigators can use to fill in the gaps in our knowledge.Written By: Carmen LeitchFEB 16, 2025Microbiology
Bacterial pathogens can cause serious infections. So many of them are becoming resistant to the effects of antibiotics t ...Written By: Carmen LeitchFEB 05, 2025Microbiology
Antibiotics are a crucial tool in the fight against bacterial infections. But the World Health Organization has long war ...Written By: Carmen LeitchJAN 21, 2025Microbiology
The world is full of microorganisms, and there are still many that we know nothing about. Scientists have embarked on a ...Written By: Carmen LeitchJAN 07, 2025Microbiology
Bacterial cells have lots of interesting abilities. They can pass a kind of memory onto offspring; easily share genes; a ...Written By: Carmen LeitchJAN 06, 2025Earth & The Environment
Antibiotic-resistant bacteria are already directly responsible for the deaths of an estimated 1.7 million people every y ...Written By: Carmen LeitchDEC 31, 2024Microbiology
Image courtesy of Ren Dodge/Carnegie Science shows Lactobacillus (red) in a certain part of the fruit fly gastrointestin ...Written By: Carmen LeitchDEC 19, 2024Cell & Molecular Biology
A new study has shown that people who have asthma or sniffling caused by allergies also carry a different set of fungi i ...Written By: Carmen LeitchDEC 11, 2024Cell & Molecular Biology
Image © S. Ahmerkamp/Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology shows a newly found endosymbiontWritten By: Carmen LeitchDEC 08, 2024Clinical & Molecular DX
A rapid diagnostic test for tuberculosis (TB) has been approved for the first time by the World Health Organization (WHO ...Written By: Carmen LeitchNOV 27, 2024Microbiology
Archaea are microorganisms that were only discovered in the 1970s, and about which scientists still have a lot to learn. ...Written By: Carmen LeitchNOV 25, 2024Cell & Molecular Biology
The significance of the human gut microbiome, a vast community of microbes in the gastrointestinal tract, has been known ...Written By: Carmen LeitchNOV 24, 2024Clinical & Molecular DX
Avian flu, particularly the highly pathogenic avian influenza H5N1, have caused huge amounts of wild and agricultural bi ...Written By: Carmen LeitchNOV 19, 2024Microbiology
Oropouche virus (OROV) was first identified in a human patient in 1955 in a fevered charcoal worker on Trinidad, a ...Written By: Carmen Leitch
SEP 21, 2025
Microbiology
Microbes have long been engaged in warfare; these cells have to find a place to survive and thrive, and collect enough n
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
SEP 09, 2025
Microbiology
The World Health Organization has estimated that in 2022, at least 149 million children under 5 were too short for their
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JUL 10, 2025
Microbiology
Remnants of everything that humans ingest ends up in waste water, including medications that people may be taking, like
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JUL 07, 2025
Microbiology
Scientists have discovered how a bacteria makes a kind of detergent, which could help eliminate some forms of pollution.
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JUL 04, 2025
Microbiology
Octopuses have many amazing abilities and characteristics; they have huge brains and can solve puzzles; their ink can di
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JUN 30, 2025
Cell & Molecular Biology
Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) is an umbrella term for the inflammatory disorders Crohn's disease and ulcerative colit
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JUN 29, 2025
Microbiology
The gut microbiome has been associated with many heath conditions, and scientists are exploring the links between the gu
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JUN 09, 2025
Genetics & Genomics
Bubonic plague has caused the deadliest pandemic in history: The Black Death, which killed as many as 50% of affected po
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
MAY 27, 2025
Earth & The Environment
The health of global oceans is under constant threat from harms like microplastics, oil spills, industrial pollution and
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
MAY 14, 2025
Microbiology
Bacterial cells have colonized every part of our world. But even though some can evade disinfectants to live in NASA cle
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
MAR 18, 2025
Microbiology
This work has also created a kind of "treasure map" that investigators can use to fill in the gaps in our knowledge.
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
FEB 16, 2025
Microbiology
Bacterial pathogens can cause serious infections. So many of them are becoming resistant to the effects of antibiotics t
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
FEB 05, 2025
Microbiology
Antibiotics are a crucial tool in the fight against bacterial infections. But the World Health Organization has long war
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JAN 21, 2025
Microbiology
The world is full of microorganisms, and there are still many that we know nothing about. Scientists have embarked on a
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JAN 07, 2025
Microbiology
Bacterial cells have lots of interesting abilities. They can pass a kind of memory onto offspring; easily share genes; a
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JAN 06, 2025
Earth & The Environment
Antibiotic-resistant bacteria are already directly responsible for the deaths of an estimated 1.7 million people every y
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
DEC 31, 2024
Microbiology
Image courtesy of Ren Dodge/Carnegie Science shows Lactobacillus (red) in a certain part of the fruit fly gastrointestin
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
DEC 19, 2024
Cell & Molecular Biology
A new study has shown that people who have asthma or sniffling caused by allergies also carry a different set of fungi i
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
DEC 11, 2024
Cell & Molecular Biology
Image © S. Ahmerkamp/Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology shows a newly found endosymbiont
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
DEC 08, 2024
Clinical & Molecular DX
A rapid diagnostic test for tuberculosis (TB) has been approved for the first time by the World Health Organization (WHO
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
NOV 27, 2024
Microbiology
Archaea are microorganisms that were only discovered in the 1970s, and about which scientists still have a lot to learn.
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
NOV 25, 2024
Cell & Molecular Biology
The significance of the human gut microbiome, a vast community of microbes in the gastrointestinal tract, has been known
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
NOV 24, 2024
Clinical & Molecular DX
Avian flu, particularly the highly pathogenic avian influenza H5N1, have caused huge amounts of wild and agricultural bi
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
NOV 19, 2024
Microbiology
Oropouche virus (OROV) was first identified in a human patient in 1955 in a fevered charcoal worker on Trinidad, a
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch