A start-up firm affiliated with Keio University developed a new food source made of a powdered form of a bacterium used for natto fermented soybeans. The bacterium can be mixed into bread and noodles ...

This microbe can survive doses of radiation that would obliterate any other living thing. Here’s what this means for science ...

The marine bacterium Alcanivorax borkumensis feeds on oil, multiplying rapidly in the wake of oil spills, and thereby accelerating the elimination of the pollution, in many cases. It does this by ...