The human gut is home to diverse microbes and has one of the highest density of microbes on Earth. The trillions of microbes that live within us are incredibly important for human health. Yet, we know ...

Cambridge, Mass. – April 16, 2009 – A reservoir of briny liquid buried deep beneath an Antarctic glacier supports hardy microbes that have lived in isolation for millions of years, researchers report ...

Microbes have been discovered alive inside 2-billion-year-old rock, offering a rare window into Earth’s deep past. Found in the Bushveld Igneous Complex (BIC) of South Africa, these microscopic ...

The phycosphere region surrounding microalgal cells is the epicenter of intricate and complex interactions between ...

Conservation biologists propose a daunting task: protecting Earth’s diversity of bacteria and other microbes. By Carl Zimmer Hundreds of scientists have joined together to save a group of species from ...

A Caltech-led study published in Nature Microbiology found that drought drives elevated antibiotic resistance across soils ...

Researchers at Emory University have found that live gut bacteria can travel to the brain in mice fed a high-fat diet, a ...

In a recent study in the journal Nutrients, researchers collated and synthesized almost 250 peer-reviewed publications investigating the "oral-gut axis," a complex, bidirectional communication network ...