Astrobiologists in Germany are developing a new testing device that could help tease dormant alien microbes into revealing ...

Many of us pay attention to the foods we're putting in our bodies—asking ourselves whether they're nutritious and healthy for ...

A microbe that is associated with good health and found in the lower part of the gut has been comprehensively analyzed and ...

When Kostas Konstantinidis proved that many bacteria—like plants and animals—are organized into species, he upended a long-held scientific belief. Scientists widely believed that bacteria ...

Archaea form one of the three domains of life; the others are bacteria and eukaryotes. MatE-Tlp system regulates substrate uptake and methane metabolism in Methermicoccus shengliensis, providing ...

Co-occurrence analysis revealed high intra-domain connectivity, indicating that microbial eukaryotic composition was more influenced by microbial eukaryotes themselves than bacteria. Increased ...

The immense amounts of plastics lying around choking our planet has driven multiple biologists to find ways to use bacteria ...

Feb. 6, 2025 — The researchers showed that when curcumin is intentionally given to bacteria as food and then activated by light, it can trigger deleterious reactions within these microbes ...

Source: Photo Credit: Creative Commons CCO public domain, photo by Andres Ayrton ... conditions are generated by the community of bacteria thriving in our gut. These microbes release substances ...

Biological scientists have uncovered how the dengue virus uses its envelope protein to capture human plasmin from a blood meal to enhance the permeability of the mosquito midgut for infection.

Think your juice cleanse is making you healthier? A new Northwestern University study suggests it might be doing the opposite ...