Researchers are continually looking for new ways to hack the cellular machinery of microbes like yeast and bacteria to make ...

From oats to beans to chicory root, each type of fiber acts differently inside the body. New research is revealing how fiber ...

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' ...

Scientists may have found a new way to spot early signs of obesity, which could lead to novel prevention strategies. A study ...

Viruses attack nearly every living organism on Earth. To do so, they rely on highly specialized proteins that recognize and ...

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 ...

Scientists found that natural bacteria can eat methane, cut climate pollution, and turn waste gas into useful materials.

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 ...

Looks like limestone’s on the menu for some unknown microbe.

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