Plastic trash has reached the world's most remote locations, from the bottom of the Mariana Trench to the summit of Everest.

Stanford Medicine researchers have identified a specific gut bacterium that accelerates memory loss in aging mice, and they ...

Microbial bioelectronic sensors use living bacteria that can create an electrical signal in response to the presence of a ...

AMES, Iowa – Smarter use of the microbes that live in and around crops could pay huge dividends for farmers in the near future, according to an Iowa State University microbiologist. Gwyn Beattie, a ...

The community of microbes in the gastrointestinal tract, the gut microbiome, is an essential partner in digestion. Those microorganisms help us break down certain foods and absorb nutrients, and the ...

After the recent pandemic, our use of disinfectants has increased, but are our efforts to create sterile urban environments backfiring? A new study published in the journal Microbiome has identified ...

A high-fat diet can cause the intestinal lining to weaken, allowing live gut bacteria to travel directly to the brain in mice ...

Biodegradable plastics don’t break down on their own. Researchers found ocean microbes play a key role, and results can vary widely.

Caption: A microbial mat above a methane seep in the Eel River Basin, Calif. This methane seep is being cored to obtain sediment from the seep. The sediment used in our experiments was sampled in this ...

Baylor University researchers have developed a novel approach to fight colorectal cancer, using modified bacteria as a courier to deliver potent cancer-killing proteins into tumor cells. Michael S.

Lynette Abbott continues her discussion on soil health by examining the effects of fertilisers on soil organisms ...