Memory is foundational to our human experience. By tracking and storing our experiences, it helps us navigate the world and ...

The human microbiome is essential to our health, but scientists have only begun to understand why. Two researchers set out to ...

Researchers at National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), in collaboration with researchers ...

The review suggests microbes may influence hormones that are linked to cancers such as breast and endometrial cancer.

Scientists are exploring light-activated nanoparticles to kill biofilms in stored drinking water, aiming to make household ...

It took two scientists decades to find a new nitrogen-fixing organelle. It could change the future of sustainable agriculture ...

Yet most of these microbes have never been named, let alone understood. That gap is now shrinking. The change comes in part ...

A research team at the Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR) has managed to purify water containing uranium using a special kind of bacteria known as magnetotactic bacteria. The name derives ...

Fast identification of bacteria is important in health care, food safety, environmental monitoring and infection control. One ...

Some fruits contain prebiotics, the fibers and plant compounds that help feed useful bacteria in the gut. Why does that ...

As they ferment this fibre, they produce compounds called short-chain fatty acids that help maintain the gut lining, support ...