Motherboard |

Searching the deep sea for new antibiotics

In the face of rising drug resistance, UC San Diego scientists are on a voyage to find never-studied bacteria.

NPR |

Would You Eat Michael Pollan Microbe Cheese?

Making your own cheese and yogurt is all the rage. Now a UCLA scientist has taken the DIY craze to an entirely new level: making cheeses using the microcritters on human skin.
Sacramento Bee |

Students work to engineer plastic-degrading bacteria

Young researchers have spent the summer at UC Davis\' Genome Center working on what they hope will one day be the answer to cleaning up the world\'s landfills.