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

Most microbes either help human health or do not affect people’s health one way or the other. Of the millions of types of microbes in the world, only a few make us sick. Microbes are organisms that ...

Microbes are part of the food we eat and can influence our own microbiome, but we know very little about the microbes in our foods. Now, researchers have developed a database of the 'food microbiome' ...

Certain types of microbes found in the human gut can absorb toxic “forever chemicals” from their surroundings, a study has found. When scientists introduced the microbes into the guts of mice to ...

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