The Importance of Infants’ Exposure to Microorganisms Many studies have strongly suggested that the trillions of microorganisms that inhabit the human body influence our current and future health and ...

Researchers have launched the first coordinated plan to protect microbial biodiversity, calling attention to the “invisible 99% of life” that drives essential Earth systems. The IUCN has formally ...

When we think of bacteria (and other microorganisms) most of us think of them as "germs" that cause diseases. Even medical research until recent years focused on microbes that cause disease and didn't ...

Your gastrointestinal system is teeming with trillions of microorganisms, which affect your health. (Photo: Getty Images) Right now, your digestive system is teeming with bacteria, fungi, viruses and ...

A study has again established the effects of microorganisms on human food and healthy living, courtesy of recent research by Dr. Stephen Akinola, a researcher at The Ohio State University, United ...

Approaches to describe the tree of life have been based on the physical characteristics and metabolic features of distinguished organisms. The advent of molecular methods has widened the diversity of ...

Listeria is a type of bacteria that can cause extreme illness, but it tends to be more durable than other types of bacteria ...

A group of scientists have issued a "warning to humanity," stressing that we can't afford to forget the part microbes—tiny organisms that live everywhere on Earth—play in climate change. The life ...

For decades, pharmaceutical companies have been using bacteria found in soil and water to chemically convert steroids into ...

Amoebae living in a creek in Mumbai are acting as a "Trojan horse," harboring and protecting multidrug resistant bacteria, ...