Summer is wrapping up, temperatures are high, and the beach is still calling. But there are risks from bacteria, parasites ...

A sweeping review published in Nature Reviews Gastroenterology & Hepatology has delivered the clearest verdict yet: your gut ...

What are “mirror bacteria”? To understand mirror bacteria, we first need to take a look at one of the key properties of the molecules of life as we know them; they have homochirality, or ...

Beans matter, but microbes may be the real secret to fine chocolate flavor. Scientists are building starter cultures that may improve quality.

Microbes found buried deep in Siberian permafrost may be able to survive over extremely long timescales using protein repair ...

Fantastic Microbes and Where to Find Them Some microbes happily thrive in unforgiving environments. An extremophile hunt is underway to leverage their resilience tactics, from medicine to space ...

Meet the Microbes That Climb Out of Sinks Special | 7m 15s | CC Researchers at Duke are studying the microbiome of the sink. In other words, they want to know what’s living down there. Turns out ...

Despite it all, there’s a thriving miniature ecosystem of billions of microbes just atop the sediment. What’s more, researchers have found, those microbes are ...

Chocolate may fill grocery store shelves around the world, but the raw product that powers chocolate is far more selective.

I study marine microbes, primarily photosynthetic marine microbes, which are the base of the marine food web and very important, not only for ecosystem dynamics in the ocean, but also for the ...

Microbes, not fossil fuels, biggest source of rising atmospheric methane levels Johns Hopkins expert Scot Miller discusses a new analysis challenging assumptions about the drivers of spiraling global ...

A group of 38 leading experts in fields ranging from synthetic biology to the existence of life beyond Earth has come together to determine the risks posed by “mirror bacteria” – and what ...