Best practices in microbiology range from learning sterile techniques or streaking your bacterial strain of choice, to defining frameworks to facilitate data sharing. These practices guide us ...

Here the authors discover a new clade of bacteria with uniquely streamlined genomes in the tissue of a deep-sea coral that provide insights into the genome reduction of symbionts.

Paronychia is a type of nail infection, most commonly caused by the bacteria called Staphylococcus aureus, which affects the skin around the nail (called nail folds). It can also occur as a result of ...