Microbial carotenoids offer faster production, health benefits and potential applications in foods, animal feed and cosmetics ...

Among the trillions of microbes that live in the gut, one obscure bacterium has suddenly become a star of obesity research.

Some recent studies have suggested that there is a link between severe gum disease or periodontitis, and some disorders that ...

This microbe can survive doses of radiation that would obliterate any other living thing. Here’s what this means for science and humanity.

Early in 2025, scientists discovered a promising new antibiotic in a soil sample from a lab technician's backyard. The ...

That includes cleanrooms where spacecrafts are assembled. These places are designed to minimize dust and microorganisms in ...

An international research team has uncovered compelling evidence that gut-microbe-derived molecules may play an important ...

A plastic fishing line might take 600 years to break down in nature or a landfill. A plastic bottle might take 450 years. Dental floss might take decades. But in a Harvard lab, a recently discovered ...

A team of scientists is trying to jumpstart a global conservation movement, on par with efforts to save the rainforests or protect the oceans. But it might be even more ambitious because the target of ...

In the mice with large-brain primate microbes, the researchers found increased expression of genes associated with energy ...

In another, perhaps counterintuitive study, mice that had all their gut bacteria wiped out were protected from gaining as ...