The genetic code is the recipe for life, and provides the instructions for how to make proteins, generally using just 20 amino acids. But certain groups of microbes have an expanded genetic code, in ...

Microbial enhanced oil recovery (MEOR) methods rely on microorganisms and their metabolic products to mobilize residual oil in several different ways. MEOR mechanisms include interfacial tension ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover the living world, from microbes to ecosystems. Why would electric bacteria exist in the first place? The vast majority of ...

An estimated 1 trillion species of microorganisms reside on Earth, yet scientists have been able to study less than two ...

Professor Dayo Victor Ayansina, an environmental and public health microbiology expert at Bowen University, Iwo, Osun State, ...