Plants are a rich and renewable source of compounds used in medicines, food ingredients, and cosmetics. Since growing an ...

A new study reveals that age-related changes in the gut microbiota directly impair intestinal stem cell (ISC) function and that restoring a youthful microbial environment can reverse this decline.

In many submerged regions, murky mud shelters strange life-forms that seem to be the key to one of the biggest mysteries of life on Earth. These creatures belong to a domain of life called the archaea ...

We all carry cells from other individuals within us. This discovery, which affects all species with a placenta, is called microchimerism.

More than 3.5 billion years ago, the Earth was not the hospitable world we know today. The atmosphere lacked oxygen, the seas ...

The microbiome-the trillions of bacteria, viruses, and fungi that live quietly in our body-plays a crucial role in shaping human health by providing a variety of micronutrients necessary for vital ...

Learn how studying microbial communities during long-duration spaceflight could also reveal new ways to support human health ...

Imagine one of the driest places on Earth, where more complex life forms are barely present, yet a rich microbial world bustles just beneath the surface. This is the Atacama Desert in Chile, a harsh ...