Microbiology - Topics

The difference between prokaryotes and eukaryotes What extremophiles reveal about the limits of life How the gut microbiome talks to the immune system and the brain Do bacteria have life cycles at all? What LUCA was and roughly when it lived Symbiosis and the organism that is really many organisms How the three-domain tree replaced the five-kingdom system Why soil is a living habitat rather than just dirt Why horizontal gene transfer turns the tree into a web Why antibiotic resistance is adaptation happening in real time Unicellular organisms that live as colonies Carl Woese and the discovery of archaea What the gut microbiome contributes to the host as a whole system Life that thrives without sunlight at hydrothermal vents Single-celled vs multicellular: how the divide happened Colonial organisms and the blurry line to multicellularity How cave ecosystems survive with no sunlight at all How horizontal gene transfer moves traits between species How a single mutation turns a harmless gut bacterium into a pathogen How a sewage treatment plant removes nitrogen without antibiotics How extremophiles survive in hot springs and salt flats How bioremediation uses bacteria to clean an oil spill Why the human microbiome resists every probiotic pill you take