By Shreya Dasgupta Venom isn’t just a feature of some animals; it’s found across the living world, from plants and fungi to ...

Microbial organisms dominate life on Earth, but tracing their early history and evolution is difficult because they rarely ...

Until now, it’s been very hard for scientists to establish a detailed timeline of the early evolution of bacteria.

Scientists found that plants, fungi, and microbes use venom-like methods to protect themselves, attack rivals, or survive.

Urbanization is reshaping soil microbial communities worldwide, driving an unexpected homogenization of bacterial populations ...

Like bacteria, archaea are single-celled organisms ... between archaea and organisms whose cells contain a nucleus, such as plants and animals. Tree of life with one branch fewer In recent ...

Only around 100 cases of brucellosis are reported annually in the U.S., even fewer of which involve feral pigs.

The common diabetes drug metformin works partly by excreting sugar from the bloodstream into the intestines, where gut bacteria then convert it into chemicals that improve the insulin response.