Forty people watched as the Currie Lab manager Caitlin Calhoun removed the queen ant’s chamber from the colony’s case in the Microbe Place. The Microbe Place, housed in the Microbial Sciences Building ...

An unusual pattern of tiny rock tunnels, first found in Namibia's desert roughly 15 years ago, could be the work of an ...

fischeri—and not any of the other billions of marine bacteria floating around the squid—that make it to the food-filled crypts. Once the hardiest V. fischeri individuals arrive and start forming a ...

Their calculations revealed that, when push came to shove, the rapidly dividing bacteria at the colony’s center became a stress hub. Weady noted that as the experiment continued, new stress hubs ...

fungi and other microbes living inside your intestines, plays a role in many aspects of your health. A plentiful and diverse colony of helpful bacteria living in your gut can help your body ...

However, when grown on agar in a Petri dish, each individual cell divides multiple times to form a visible colony. If we count the number of individual colonies of bacteria on the plates ...