Microbes

The 2021 Microbial Ecology Collaborative Startup Launchpad (MECSL) announced FrostyFlake and LifeGlass as their two winners and awarded the start-ups a share of a $25,000 seed fund.

The family tree of living things has a new branch - one whose members can be found in some of Yellowstone's hot springs. It's been named Brockarchaeota, and it's part of a broad category known as a phylum. Finding a new phylum is a big deal because it doesn't happen very often.

When a fire burns through an area, one of the first plants to reestablish is the aspen tree. This is because aspens reproduce clonally, meaning new…

The microbesitary is a University of Wyoming program and website that seeks to illustrate the microbial world.Program coordinator Erin Bentley is hoping…

Alpine areas are predicted to be one of the areas most affected by climate change and some unique microbes have made their homes in the glacier-fed…

In the last few years, researchers have discovered the earth is literally filled with microbes, those little single-celled critters we sometimes call…

It’s year two in a major project to catalog the microbes of Wyoming, and now University of Wyoming scientists have a robot to help them do the…