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.

Microbiologists identify diatoms, algae, and cyanobacteria species from samples above a mountaintop in France.

Developing computational tools to analyze the reams of microbial sequencing data his lab generates, the UC San Diego microbiologist is a pioneer of microbiome research.

A new portable instrument could help to lure useful bugs in from the wild.

The MIT associate professor wants to understand microbial communities in their ecological context.