A new database with more than 2,500 food metagenomes gives scientists a glimpse into the microbial diversity of the human diet. Microbes are everywhere in a food’s life cycle, from enhancing flavors ...

Microbial ecosystems—for example, in seawater, the soil or in the human gut—are astonishingly diverse, but researchers often ...

Learn how your kitchen sponge may be harboring more bacteria than you think, and what a more viable substitute may be.

A new study shows that an eight-week wild-food-only diet in a modern adult leads to dramatic, partially lasting changes in ...

In the wine making process yeast cells are kept short of oxygen. This causes sugars in the grape juice to ferment which forms alcohol and carbon dioxide. In cheese and yoghurt, bacteria perform a ...

Foods contaminated with the bacteria can make people sick. Symptoms can be mild and include fever, muscle aches, nausea, ...

The researchers also reintroduced microbes to the mice after antibiotics through fecal microbial transplants. The rationale ...

This year's $500,000 World Food Prize, for advances in agriculture and nutrition, goes to Mariangela Hungria, who boosted ...

This network of bacteria is called the microbiome. These bacteria work together to help digest food, strengthen the immune system, and make vitamins and other nutrients. Changes in the ...

In the wine making process yeast cells are kept short of oxygen. This causes sugars in the grape juice to ferment which forms alcohol and carbon dioxide. In cheese and yoghurt, bacteria perform a ...