Researchers are continually looking for new ways to hack the cellular machinery of microbes like yeast and bacteria to make ...

Microbes are part of the food we eat and can influence our own microbiome, but we know very little about the microbes in our foods. Now, researchers have developed a database of the 'food microbiome' ...

Viruses attack nearly every living organism on Earth. To do so, they rely on highly specialized proteins that recognize and ...

The microbes living in sourdough starters don’t just appear by chance—they’re shaped by what bakers feed them. New research ...

(The Hill) — Certain types of microbes found in the human gut can absorb toxic “forever chemicals” from their surroundings, a new study has found. When scientists introduced the microbes into the guts ...

In recent years, scientists have begun to reveal the myriad ways that gut microbes can impact our health; they had identified ...

From oats to beans to chicory root, each type of fiber acts differently inside the body. New research is revealing how fiber ...

Scientists may have found a new way to spot early signs of obesity, which could lead to novel prevention strategies. A study ...

Most microbes either help human health or do not affect people’s health one way or the other. Of the millions of types of microbes in the world, only a few make us sick. Microbes are organisms that ...

Marine microbes cooperate far more than they compete, reshaping how scientists understand ocean ecosystems and climate ...

Looks like limestone’s on the menu for some unknown microbe.