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

Underground environments like soil and aquifers teem with microbial life. These tiny microbes play a big role in cycling ...

A six-year analysis of marine microbes in coastal California waters has overturned long-held assumptions about how the ...

Soils store more carbon than the atmosphere and vegetation combined, with soil microorganisms playing the main role. As a ...

Though a founding concept of ecology suggests that the physical environment determines where organisms can survive, modern scientists have suspected there is more to the story of how microbial ...

Human breast milk contains its own microbial ecosystem, and new research suggests these microbes may help seed an infant’s gut. Most discussions of breast milk highlight nutrients, antibodies, and the ...

The holobiont paradigm finally recognizes that macroorganism development and health, like all other natural ecosystems, are influenced by the diverse microbial communities they host. However, ...

In a recent study published in the journal Nature Water, researchers investigated the viral distribution, host interactions, and antibiotic resistance gene (ARG) transfer on microplastics using ...