Bacteria carry countless hidden treasures in their DNA—fragments that could hold the key to new medicines. But how do you ...

Streptomyces griseus, both plentiful and invisible, was championed by aging scientists but not precocious youth. "Talking about microbes is a hard sell because people don't see them," Warhol said ...

Unique among bacteria, Streptomyces has a very complex life cycle, and a linear chromosome instead of the usual circular chromosome found in most bacterial species.

Strains of Streptomyces bacteria, found in soil, grow in a lab at Swansea University in Wales. They're so new to science they haven't been named.

Streptomyces bacteria are our primary source of antibiotics, which are produced in the transition from vegetative growth to sporulation in a complex developmental life cycle. Streptomyces bacteria ...

Streptomyces, for its part, produces organic compounds used in everything from chemical weapons to antibiotics. It also produces geosmin and other volatile organic compounds (VOCs) that easily ...

Streptomyces' chemical weaponry against their competitors is one of the richest sources of such molecules. Among them is the common, broad-spectrum drug streptomycin.

image: Streptomyces strains 303 and 299 produce a pigment consistent with synthetic melanin. view more Credit: Phytobiomes Journal. Plant growth-promoting Streptomyces assemble into the internal ...

Streptomyces uses geosmin to ring the dinner bell for hungry springtails, which eat the bacteria, and in return the arthropods spread the bacteria’s spores far and wide.

Two strains stood out significantly: Streptomyces polyrhachis (K6) and Streptomyces fildesensis (E7), isolated from the Escudero and Great Wall stations.