Bacteria are at the center of all life forms on planet earth and are the essential building blocks that make living organisms the way they are. ... elephants and trees. Human microbiome.

The totality of bacteria, viruses and fungi that exist in and on a multicellular organism forms its natural microbiome. The ...

The human gut microbiome — bacteria and other microorganisms living in our gut that are essential for our survival — are endangered. ... You fall from a tree, you are dead.

While humans are living organisms in their own right, the human body is also a thriving ecosystem for a number of bacteria, viruses and microbes. The human microbiome plays a vital role in our ...

Citrus trees showing natural tolerance to citrus greening disease host bacteria that produce novel antimicrobials that can be used to fight off the disease, our recent study shows. We found the trees ...

To better understand how microbes affect our health, researchers combined 119 species of bacteria naturally found in the human body. By Carl Zimmer Our bodies are home to hundreds or thousands of ...

An interdisciplinary research team led by the Leibniz-HKI in Jena has discovered a new group of bioactive natural compounds ...

This technique, which is related to the application of the CRISPR gene scissors, could also be used to analyze the function of other bacteria in the microbiome. There is still a lot to uncover in ...