The evolutionary emergence of complex multicellularity in bacteria and fungi, such as the ability for mycelial growth, is strongly associated with increased genomic carriage of biosynthetic machinery ...

At a Hamilton-area daycare, Lindsay Kalan and Jonathan Cannon pass each other in the parking lot at dropoff. They smile, nod, and carry on with . . .

Abstract. Studies of microbial interactions often emphasize interactions with large, easily measurable growth differences and short-term ecological outcome

ASM has successfully met its sustainability target for the subscription year under its S2O publishing model. Now, articles in the 2025 volume of ASM’s 6 S2O journals will be published open access.

Rare taxa are an important constituent of the microbiome and play a crucial role in maintaining biodiversity and ecosystem dynamics. However, little is known about rare taxa within the core microbiome...

National Institutes of Health grants generated almost $95 billion in economic activity nationwide in FY 2024 according to a new report by United for Medical Research.

My ID colleague Dr. Adam Ratner, Chief of Pediatric ID at NYU Medical Center, just published an insightful and remarkably timely book called Booster Shots:  The Urgent Lessons of Measles and the Uncer...

Administration officials pressured NIH to avoid clear advice from the agency’s own lawyers to restart grant funding now.

On March 7, 2025, we rally to defend science as a public good and pillar of social, political, and economic progress.

Over the course of 30 years, HHMI Investigator Bonnie Bassler has helped usher in a new branch of science centered on quorum sensing, the process by which bacteria communicate with one another and orc...

AmpG is an MFS importer of bacterial cell wall fragments. Here, authors present a cryoEM structure and supporting mutagenesis to illuminate AmpG’s essential role in bacterial fitness and derepression ...

Microbiology Spectrum is a a new open access journal that will publish research from all domains of basic, applied and clinical microbial sciences.

Diverse communities of commensal gut bacteria collectively limit pathogen colonization by blocking nutrient access.

Candida albicans is one of the most common causes of superficial and invasive fungal disease in huma

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NHGRI seeks to identify outstanding tenure-track or tenure-eligible investigators for the newly established Center for Genomics and Data Science Research (CGDSR) within the Division of Intramural Rese...

Microverse researchers report on their research and current projects.

Berkeley Lab’s (LBNL) Environmental Genomics and Systems Biology (EGSB) Division has an opening for a Project Scientist to join the team as...