Biologists are confronting a problem they thought they had mostly solved: what, exactly, counts as life. A wave of ...

Foraminifera (forams) are shelled microorganisms that are abundant in the Earth’s seabed. Analyzing different species of forams provides important information about climate change, the state of the ...

Professor Anna Panorska and her former master’s student David Kweku (Statistics and Data Science), along with an interdisciplinary and international team of researchers, recently authored an article ...

Imagine creating a comprehensive, searchable index for a library containing hundreds of millions of books—a task that would take a single person a lifetime to complete. Now imagine discovering that ...

A research team led by UC Berkeley scientists has defined a new branch on the tree of life after sequencing about 800 largely unknown bacteria genomes. The researchers classified these very small ...

Bacterial identification can take hours and often longer -- precious time when diagnosing infections and selecting appropriate treatments. There may be a quicker, more accurate process. By teaching a ...

Bacterial identification can take hours and often longer, precious time when diagnosing infections and selecting appropriate treatments. There may be a quicker, more accurate process according to ...

Although the destructive effects of oral bacteria in producing dental caries, periodontal disease, and other infectious conditions are well known, the identities of many of the microbes responsible ...