After spending years tracing the origin and migration pattern of an unusual type of immune cell in mice, researchers have shown in a new study how activity of 'good' microbes in the gut is linked to ...

Microorganisms—defined as very small living beings, invisible to the naked eye, comprising bacteria, fungi, viruses or others ...

A consortium of researchers with multidisciplinary skills, coordinated by INRAE and including the CNRS, the Université ...

A study from Jiangnan University reveals that a gut microbe, Bacteroides vulgatus, can naturally regulate blood sugar levels ...

Discover five potent fermented foods that surpass expensive probiotic supplements in digestive benefits, bacterial diversity, ...

Scientists inserted DNA-encoding methylmercury detoxification enzymes into the genome of an abundant human gut bacterium. The engineered bacterium detoxified methylmercury in the gut of mice and ...

Washing your clothing on high temperature cycles may not completely disinfect it, researchers have found, because washing ...

Having higher numbers of particular gut microbes might put you at a higher risk of developing multiple sclerosis (MS), a new ...

There, a harmless gut microbe called segmented filamentous bacteria (SFB) causes these cells to change into the more ...

Microbes in the Gowanus sediment have evolved methods of coping with and even subsisting off of the contamination, according ...

Warming temperatures can ramp up the activity of methane-producing bacteria in wetland soils, adding to methane emissions.

Another special element of MMB is the "magnetotactic" in its name, which means it orients itself based on Earth's magnetic ...