Hundreds of different species of microbes live, laugh, and love in your gut. In the future, one of these might serve a new function: microscopic in-house pharmacist.

Using digital blueprints of the metabolism of microbes, scientists can simulate expensive and time-intensive experiments set in space, power plants and farm fields.

This complex microbial dance seems to have a really important role in our health. Oral diseases and even oral cancers have ...

Biologists converted gut bacteria into miniature protein factories that manufacture and release a sustained flow of targeted proteins inside the lower intestines. This technique solves one of the ...

Scientists in Germany have developed a method to obtain protein and vitamin B9 from microbes by providing ... growing proteins in bioreactors through biotechnology rather than growing crops ...

Darwin's theory of natural selection provides an explanation for why organisms develop traits that help them survive and reproduce. Because of this, death is often seen as a failure rather than a ...

Researchers reveal that gut microbiota influence the effectiveness of immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs) in cancer treatment ...

Science Outreach Athabasca and Dr. Srijak Bhatnaga is part of a team of scientists analyzing Alberta’s microplastics load ...

As a community of tiny organisms including microbes, the plant microbiome ... The study, led by Abdul Latif Khan, assistant professor of biotechnology at the Cullen College of Engineering ...

A team of scientists from the Institute of Bio- and Geosciences - Biotechnology at Forschungszentrum Jülich worked together ...

Could the key to easing anxiety be hidden in our gut? Scientists have discovered a crucial connection between gut microbes and anxiety-related behavior. Their research suggests that microbial ...