Harnessing the power of artificial intelligence to study plant microbiomes—communities of microbes living in and around ...

Some microbes can squeeze through tight spaces by wrapping themselves in their flagellum—the tail-like structure they use to ...

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

In the weightlessness of space, bacteria acquired mutations in genes involved in the microbe's stress response and nutrient ...

A new study reveals how bacteria in the gut can help determine whether the amino acid asparagine from the diet will feed ...

A new study reveals that soil acidity plays a critical role in determining how wheat competes with soil microorganisms for nitrogen, a nutrient ...

Kerala names Bacillus subtilis State Microbe, highlighting its wide applications in health, industry and sustainability.

A plastic fishing line might take 600 years to break down in nature or a landfill. A plastic bottle might take 450 years. Dental floss might take decades. But in a Harvard lab, a recently discovered ...

Invisible in their trillions, microbes dwell in our bodies, grow in soils, live on trees and are integral to planetary health ...

A bacterium best known for causing gum disease may also influence how breast cancer begins and spreads. A team at the Kimmel Cancer Center and the Bloomberg~Kimmel Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy r ...