Category: Cellular & Microbiology

In this amazing video, Tom Kirchhausen, PhD, a Harvard Medical School professor of cell biology, shows how tiny protein-bubbles form to carry cargo, such as …

In a sense, our body is not our own. Microbes living in and around us outnumber our own human cells ten to one. A review …

As previously reported on Scope, researchers at Stanford and elsewhere are engaged in ongoing efforts to determine how microscopic ecosystems that exist in the human …

Yesterday, Nikon Instruments announced the winners of its inaugural Small World in Motion Photomicrography Competition. From a selection of more than 200 submissions, judges deemed …

This neat little documentary from Open University catalogs seven "wonders" of the microbe world, from the making of beer to what caused the Black Death …

Does the basic catalytic engine in E. coli have enough horsepower to convert inexpensive sugars into biodiesel? That's the question posed by Stanford researchers investigating …

From office buildings to shopping malls to our homes, we spend a significant about of time in structures with controlled environments. Noting how much time …

Some days it can feel as if you subsist on caffeine. But, sadly, you're no competition for a newly discovered caffeine-feeding bacterium called Pseudomonas putida …

Stress can make your heart race, palms sweat and voice crack. But it also may alter the balance of the microorganisms living in your gut, …

Anybody who's ever picked up an M&M off the sidewalk and popped it into his or her mouth (and, really, who among us hasn't?) will …

You may not think about it often, but your mouth is a neighborhood of sorts: every surface is alive with microorganisms that are moving, competing, …