Some bacteria have been shown to have an extraordinary ability to digest things in their surroundings faster than their competition after they acquired a strange library of supplemental genes dubbed “Borg” DNA. Researchers hope to discover novel ways of engineering ...

A team of researchers has created a microscope that can view bacteria in soil and plants at the micrometer scale. Scientists at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) have created a specialized microscope to examine bacteria in soil and plants at ...