This engineered genome will help experts tailor organisms to fit the needs of their ever-changing environments.

Finding life in outer space is one of the great endeavors of humankind. One approach is to find motile microorganisms that ...

Dust samples containing spores lined up in Bala Chaudhary's mycorrhizal ecology lab. Chaudhary, an assistant professor in the Department of Environmental Science and Studies at DePaul University ...

DNA analysis reveals the big, flightless moa birds ate — and pooped out — 13 kinds of fungi, including ones crucial for New Zealand’s forest ecosystem.

The search for alien life could be boosted by a simple new test, say scientists. They believe the movement of microbes may ...