Profitable, Practical, Improved Yields: Feed Microbes to Improve Plant Health With rising input costs and price uncertainties, it’s important now, more than ever, to implement practices that are ...

To study these little microbes, I let them grow in 3-liter glass vessels called bioreactors. Each bioreactor contained bubbles of precious carbon monoxide that my microbes use as a source of food.

Astronauts living in isolated, sanitized space habitats for long periods of time could stay healthier by being exposed to a greater variety of microbes from Earth, according to a new study.

A group of bacteria has proved adept at destroying the ultratough carbon-fluorine bonds that give “forever chemicals” their name. This finding boosts hopes that microbes might someday help ...

Skin microbes do more than coexist—they shape immune responses, repair tissue, and influence gene expression across your lifespan. This review explains how disruptions in this microbiome-immune ...

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 ...

Could the key to easing anxiety be hidden in our gut? Scientists from Duke-NUS Medical School and the National Neuroscience Institute have discovered a crucial connection between gut microbes and ...

New animal research shows that exposure to antibiotics at a critical window of development can stunt growth of insulin-producing cells in the pancreas, boosting risk of Type 1 diabetes. It also ...

Microbes in the environment, not fossil fuels, have been driving the recent surge in methane emissions globally, according to a new, detailed analysis published Oct 21 in the Proceedings of the ...

Mercury is extraordinarily toxic, but it becomes especially dangerous when transformed into methylmercury—a form so harmful that just a few billionths of a gram can cause severe and lasting ...

But the world of microbes plays by different rules. In 2020, for example, scientists successfully revived 100-million-year-old microbes, making them the longest-lived microbes known to science.

The world is full of microbes, and many of them like the taste of waste. Some carbon monoxide-loving microbes can be harnessed to transform waste into valuable biofuel.