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 ...

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

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

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 ...