An international research team has uncovered compelling evidence that gut-microbe-derived molecules may play an important ...

Researchers uncover evidence that the gut microbiome and brain connection can influence brain gene expression and neural ...

This microbe can survive doses of radiation that would obliterate any other living thing. Here’s what this means for science ...

A groundbreaking new study reveals that changes to the gut microbiome can change the way the brain works. Humans have the largest relative brain size of any primate, but little is known about how ...

Scientists trace an ancient microbe, Asgard archaea, that gave rise to humans, animals, and plants more than 2 billion years ...

The vast community of microbes in the human gastrointestinal tract–the gut microbiome, has many close links to human health..

A new study reveals how gut bacteria may initiate ulcerative colitis by weakening immune defenses before inflammation occurs.

Cramped in a small submarine 2,500 meters below the Pacific’s surface in 2006, microbiologist Hiroyuki Imachi scanned the ocean floor for signs of microbial life. As the sub drifted over the bottom of ...

What key traits distinguish a living organism from something not alive? What defines life itself? Get a sense of the answers by building your own animated microbe, and learn about research attempting ...

Jeremy Herren receives funding from The Wellcome Trust, BBSRC ANTi-VeC Network and icipe's core donors (the UK’s Department for International Development (DFID); Swedish International Development ...