The microorganisms on Earth have managed to find a home nearly everywhere, even in what seems like the most inhospitable of places. There is a lake in Antarctica with levels of salt that are so high, ...

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 ...

Microbiologists have launched the first coordinated plan to protect microbial biodiversity across the planet, calling ...

A quest to discover new antibiotics is taking a Cal Poly biochemistry research team back in time millions of years as they ...

Since the industrial revolution, microbes have successfully colonized one novel type of habitat after another: for example marine oil spills, plastic floating in the oceans, industrial brownfields, ...

In a new study published in Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment on Nov. 5, Prof. Zeng Fanjiang's team from the Xinjiang ...

There are trillions of microbes in the human gastrointestinal tract, each of which expresses its own genome, and carries out a variety of biochemical processes. Gut microbes can generate a variety of ...

Lactic acid bacteria (LAB) are a diverse group of microorganisms that play a central role in the fermentation of foods, contributing not only to preservation and safety but also to enhanced ...

Industrial microbiology is a branch of applied microbiology that uses microbes, such as bacteria, algae, and fungi, to produce high-value products, including drugs and fuels. 1 This field of science ...