The Krauter Lab probes the relationship between human microbial populations and human development and disease. They combine genetic analyses, environmental assessments and high-throughput DNA sequence ...

Biologists are quietly rewriting what it means to be alive, and the human body has become one of their strangest frontiers.

Experts build database of "salutogenic potential" revealing how hidden microbes and natural compounds help keep us healthy.

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 ...

Earth's population is estimated to be roughly 8 billion people, according to the United Nations. Depending on body size and thus the surface area of skin, a person could have more than 8 billion ...

With so many coral reefs bleaching and pangolins being poached, it may seem tone-deaf to call for the conservation of species that are too small to see with the naked eye. But that’s exactly what the ...

Maximilienne Toetie Allaart receives funding from the Alexander von Humboldt foundation for her postdoctoral work. Her PhD project, of which the work described here was part, was funded through the ...