Living Eye Drops Could Change Eye Care Forever. What the Future Holds for Microbe-Based Therapies

This is the first demonstration that a microbe that lives on the ocular surface could be engineered to deliver a therapeutic ...
Justice Dodson on MSN

Iodine vs. microbes under the microscope

See how iodine interacts with tiny organisms under the microscope for fascinating results. #microscopy #microbes #scienceexperiment ...
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Newly Discovered Microbe Turns Into a Cannibalistic 'Supergiant'

A scanning electron microscope image of a supergiant Euplotes gigatrox cell. (Ben Larson/Samuel Lord) A newly discovered ...
The New York Times

How Microbes Got Their Crawl

In the oceans and on land, scientists are discovering rare, transitional organisms that bridge the gap between Earth’s simplest cells and today’s complex ones. By Carl Zimmer A flurry of new studies ...

In 1931, electromagnetic lenses helped scientists see a world ordinary microscopes could not reach

In 1931, physicists Knoll and Ruska unveiled the first electron microscope, revolutionizing science by using magnetic lenses ...
The New Yorker

Our Warming Planet Is a Petri Dish for New and Deadly Microbes

Flesh-eating” bacteria is spreading. Infectious fungi are emerging. Microbiomes may never be the same. Are we ready?
The New York Times

Save the Whales. But Save the Microbes, Too.

Conservation biologists propose a daunting task: protecting Earth’s diversity of bacteria and other microbes. By Carl Zimmer Hundreds of scientists have joined together to save a group of species from ...
Carnegie Mellon University

Bacteria Can Learn and Form Memories Without a Brain

Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University have shown that bacteria can learn from past experiences, store memories across generations and adapt their behavior to changing environments all without a ...