Gut health, antibiotic resistance, probiotics and the effects of bacteria on the immune system are specialties for Amir Mani, ...

For the research, scientists compared samples incubated on Earth and on the International Space Station.

We have become much more aware of all of the surfaces we touch daily and what kinds of germs can be on them. The Microbiology Lab at the Medical College of Georgia conducted an experiment with ...

More than 3.5 billion years ago, the Earth was not the hospitable world we know today. The atmosphere lacked oxygen, the seas ...

People have long said that "bread is life." Now, researchers at Tufts University are using the bubbling mixtures of flour and ...

Scientists discover microgravity in space could help fight drug-resistant superbugs by creating unique viral mutations, ...

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

A new study reveals that age-related changes in the gut microbiota directly impair intestinal stem cell (ISC) function and that restoring a youthful microbial environment can reverse this decline.

Do they become “snowbirds” and relocate to warmer climates until spring? Do they hibernate like bears? Or do they continue to do the jobs they do so well, waiting for spring and fresh plantings to ...

A dominant paradigm in ecology is that plants are limited by nitrogen (N) during primary succession. Whether generalizable patterns of nutrient limitation are also applicable to metabolically and ...