Biologists are quietly rewriting what it means to be alive, and the human body has become one of their strangest frontiers.

Not all microbes are villains—many are vital to keeping us healthy. Researchers have created a world-first database that ...

Experts build database of "salutogenic potential" revealing how hidden microbes and natural compounds help keep us healthy.

The Krauter Lab probes the relationship between human microbial populations and human development and disease. They combine genetic analyses, environmental assessments and high-throughput DNA sequence ...

Earth's population is estimated to be roughly 8 billion people, according to the United Nations. Depending on body size and thus the surface area of skin, a person could have more than 8 billion ...

An international group of researchers has recently warned the broader scientific community and the public of the risks of mirror life—specifically, the creation of mirror microbes by scientists in the ...

Conservation biologists propose a daunting task: protecting Earth’s diversity of bacteria and other microbes. By Carl Zimmer Hundreds of scientists have joined together to save a group of species from ...

Using bacteria to take a bite out of plastic pollution is not new. But can the same microbes be used as a food source? By Sara Talpos/Undark Published Aug 22, 2024 8:33 AM EDT This article was ...