This smartphone bacteria may be art, but that doesn't mean it isn't real. The truth is we're all filthy, filthy creatures and your smartphone harbors proof.

A federal grand jury issued indictments on Tuesday against an art professor at the State University of New York at Buffalo who used bacteria in his work, and against a genetics professor at the ...

A University of Pittsburgh professor who had been charged with illegally supplying microbes to an art professor for an exhibit pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor charge that he did not follow proper ...

THIS smartphone bacteria may be art, but that doesn't mean it isn't real.

Scientists and others used bacteria grown on agar plates to create their artworks for the American Society for Microbiology’s annual Agar Art competition.

Art-cleaning bacteria are still on the cutting edge in the restoration world, ... Other projects have removed everything from mineral salts to graffiti, and many surfaces host more than one.

Microbiologists have long known that bacteria come in a diversity of shapes and shades, and scientist-artists have been harnessing colorful bacteria to create works of art since at least the 1920s.

As Spanish microbiologist Pilar Bosch was casting around for a subject to investigate for her PhD in 2008, she stumbled across a paper suggesting that bacteria, her field, could be used in art ...