microbes

Culture media contain various components that promote and support bacterial growth and differentiation.

Rock-dwelling bacteria and eukaryotes live in the company of the dead by feeding on tombstones.

Hazel Barton studies cave microbiomes and leverages their properties for unique applications.

Nanopore sequencing platforms provide researchers the freedom to rapidly sequence long microbial nucleic acid fragments in the field. 

Microbes on decomposing bodies inform forensic investigations.

Esther Ngumbi believes that chemical signals between plants, microbes, and insects hold the key to secure and sustainable food production.

Researchers identified cold-adapted microbes that degrade certain plastics at low temperatures, potentially saving energy in industrial recycling.

Yeast cells share metabolites through extracellular space to extend the lifespan of the entire community.

Bacteria cooperate to benefit the collective, but cheaters can rig the system. How is the balance maintained?

From spatial structuring to policing, cooperative bacteria have a wide toolkit to contain the spread of cheaters.

Regulatory T cells in the colon travel to muscles to promote wound healing in mice, raising questions about how antibiotics may impact injury recovery.

Syphilis is among the oldest known sexually-transmitted infections. Scientists still struggle to detect and treat it.

At 33, Dal Co had already founded her own microbial ecology lab at the University of Lausanne in Switzerland.

A study adds to evidence linking gut bacteria to liver conditions in people who don’t drink excessive amounts of alcohol. 

A lot happened in the hundreds of millions years separating the first and last eukaryotic common ancestors, but when and how most features arose remains a mystery.

All multicellular creatures interact with bacteria, but some have taken the relationship to another level with highly specialized structures that house, feed, and exploit the tiny organisms.

Specialized structures in plants and animals help attract and mediate communication with bacterial symbionts.

Milk fortifiers of human origin show no evident advantage in the development of the gut microbiota of premature infants over fortifiers derived from cows, while the intake of the mother’s own milk does, two studies suggest.

When consumed for as little as two weeks, common alternatives to sugar affect intestinal bacterial communities, with some reducing the body’s ability to regulate blood glucose levels, a study finds.