Page 57 - Microbes News Today

How a team of fearless American women overcame medical skepticism to stop whooping cough, a vicious infectious disease, and save countless lives

Treating babies with antibiotics in the first week of life is linked with a decrease in healthy bacteria necessary amongst others to digest milk and an increase in antimicrobial resistance, a new study by The University of Edinburgh researchers suggested.

University of California, Davis and Rice University researchers discovered a previously unknown energy metabolism in lactic acid bacteria, essential in creating fermented foods. The species Lactiplantibacillus plantarum was found to have used a single pathway that "simultaneously blends features" of fermentation and respiration in the primarily fermentative microbe.

The bottom of the Arctic Ocean, below the permanent sea ice, is not a friendly place for life.

Medical researchers have discovered a molecule linking the tiny creatures that call our guts home to levels of fat in our bodies.

A lengthy report about 5G exposure has found that this newfound radiation source is damaging the health of creatures that live in the wild. The 150-page report, compiled by researchers at the [...]

Antarctic fuel-eating microbes may help in plastic clean-up.

Soil microbes, like bacteria and fungi, continually slug it out for food and dominance. Zypro from Helena Agri-Enterprises, LLC helps the good guys.

BUENOS AIRES: A team of Argentine scientists is using microorganisms native to Antarctica to clean up pollution from fuels and potentially plastics in the pristine expanses of the...

The human gut is the host of a rampant microscopic orgy. To survive, the microbes in our digestive tract are having sex with each other on a regular basis, all in the name of swapping secrets on how to survive deadly doses of antibiotics.