We really do contaminate everything we touch — and space is no exception.
The humble fly carries even more diseases than we thought, new study shows
Flies can do so much more than ruin your picnic, new research finds.
Microbes thrive in high altitude stormy clouds – could play role in global climate
It’s a bird! No, it’s a plane! No, it’s… microbes ?! High up in the atmosphere, 10.000 meters above ground, researchers have found over 100 species of bacteria doing just fine in stormy clouds. Each year, hundreds of millions of tons of dust, water and man-maned pollutans make their way into the atmosphere, often traveling between distant locations or even
First ever computer model of a living organism performed
In what can only be described as a milestone in biological and genetic engineering, scientists at Stanford University have, for the first time ever, simulated a complete bacterium. With the organism completely in virtual form, the scientists can perform any kind of modification on its genome and observe extremely quickly what kind of changes would occur in the organism. This