Take a peek at one of the biggest collections of bacteria and fungi in the world.

The East Coast campus of the research institute received shipments of freeze-dried or frozen samples of more than 210,000 microbial strains, which scientists plan to mine for potentially useful natural products.

See this year’s winners of the American Society for Microbiology’s agar art competition.

Research on hundreds of babies finds the delivery method is linked with a greater abundance of taxa more frequently seen in hospitals.

Funnel-web spiders change the timing of their distinct courtship behavior depending on what microbes they’re carrying.

Mycale grandis teams up with microbes housed inside it to gather nutrients.

Microbial species that are commonly associated with oral diseases in modern humans are unreliable proxies for determining tooth health status in ancient samples, a new study finds.

The authors of a new study find no evidence for bacteria in the placenta, but others in the field question their interpretation of the data.

Independent scientists say the original analysis is flawed; the authors stand by their work and are seeking outside statisticians to reanalyze the data.