Among the objectives of the walk, there was an intriguing scientific objective: The duo swabbed the surface material around ...

Previous studies have shown that poor oral health is linked to major diseases such as cancer, heart disease, diabetes, and ...

One example of public debate over the use of a ... unintentional spread of recombinant genes or exposure of non-target organisms to new toxic compounds in the environment. Debate ensued when ...

With all the buzz surrounding fermented foods recently, most people probably know that there are "good" bacteria out in the ...

said this was a fantastic example of microbial 'ingenuity': how life has evolved ways to turn something toxic into something useful. "These microbes help clean our atmosphere," Dr Gillett said.

An analysis of the gut microbiome in women from four African countries provides crucial data for this under-represented ...

By Carolyn Beans for the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science. Broadcast version by Judith Ruiz-Branch for ...

The natural world is a finely-tuned balance of biotic (living) and abiotic (nonliving) components that shape our environments. Various biotic factors directly affect processes like population growth, ...

Elaine Power first became interested in studying coprophagy—the practice of eating feces—when she was teaching high school ...

Prokaryotes typically have both a cell wall and a cell membrane, but exceptions exist. For example, mycoplasmas do not have a cell wall. 12 These organisms rely on their cell membrane for structural ...

After more than a decade of work, researchers have reached a major milestone in their efforts to re-engineer life in the lab, putting together the final chromosome in a synthetic yeast (Saccharomyces ...