Underground environments like soil and aquifers teem with microbial life. These tiny microbes play a big role in cycling ...

A groundbreaking study reveals how analyzing the microbiome across multiple body sites helps identify novel microbes and antimicrobial resistance genes, paving the way for new diagnostic and ...

Scientists have discovered the DNA of ancient microbes inside of the remains of woolly and steppe mammoths. This microbial DNA, which may be one million years old or more, may be among the oldest DNA ...

Researchers from University of California San Diego, as part of a large collaboration with scientists around the world, have developed a new search tool to help researchers better understand the ...

Microbial samples collected under the auspices of the Microbiota Vault Initiative are stored temporarily in cryogenic conditions at the Institute of Medical Microbiology at the University of Zurich. A ...

Researchers have developed a new search tool to that can match microbes to the metabolites they produce with no prior knowledge, an innovation that could transform our understanding of both human ...

Sequencing mammoth DNA has already helped scientists map out how these Ice Age giants evolved, migrated, and survived. But there's a hidden layer of history still waiting to be decoded – the microbes ...

Last Friday, June 27, was World Microbiome Day. The theme was “Microbiome 101: What You Need to Know” with the overall goal of “simplifying the science, focusing on raising awareness, and providing ...

Scientists from Northwestern University in the U.S. led a series of underwater expeditions collecting water samples from the deep web of caves and sinkholes in the Yucatán Peninsula. The southeastern ...

My only surprise was that the researchers looking down their microscope at asteroid rock samples only saw terrestrial bacterial contamination and not golden retriever dog hair, which permeates the ...