But there’s still a lot we can’t see, and Fieldstone Bio thinks microbes can change that. “They’ve evolved to sense and respond to information. It’s just trillions of calculations going on at all ...

Scientists at the McGovern Institute and the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard have reengineered a compact RNA-guided enzyme ...

Discover how short-chain fatty acids produced in your gut influence everything from immunity to metabolism, potentially ...

Switch Bioworks enables nitrogen-fixing microbes to first establish themselves on plant roots before switching on fertilizer production.

This bacterium is a common cause of infections in hospitals, and now researchers are a step closer to understanding why.

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 ...

Scientists led by Karla Satchell, Ph.D., the Anne Stewart Youmans Professor of Microbiology at Northwestern University, have ...

A new study reveals that biofilms in washing machines may contain potential pathogens and antibiotic resistance genes, posing ...

“Germy places in your bedroom are obviously going to be any high-touch surfaces, so your light switches and your door handles ...

The unusual molecular makeup of Borrelia burgdorferi, which causes Lyme disease, may hold clues for understanding and treating the tick-borne disease.

The common hospital-acquired, antibiotic-resistant bacterial infection is known to cause infections in the blood, lungs and urinary tract after surgery. While symptoms can vary depending on the site ...