Scientists want to study the way your body’s gut microbes react and interact with psychedelic substances like magic mushrooms ...

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

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

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

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

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

Brazilian microbiologist Mariangela Hungria's work using beneficial bacteria to boost crop yields wins her the $500,000 World Food Prize.

Bestowed by the World Food Prize Foundation since 1987 ... She spent that whole night reading about bacteria and fungi. The next morning, she announced to her family that she, too, would become ...