Microbial carotenoids offer faster production, health benefits and potential applications in foods, animal feed and cosmetics ...

A plastic fishing line might take 600 years to break down in nature or a landfill. A plastic bottle might take 450 years. Dental floss might take decades. But in a Harvard lab, a recently discovered ...

Some recent studies have suggested that there is a link between severe gum disease or periodontitis, and some disorders that ...

Among the trillions of microbes that live in the gut, one obscure bacterium has suddenly become a star of obesity research.

This microbe can survive doses of radiation that would obliterate any other living thing. Here’s what this means for science and humanity.

Early in 2025, scientists discovered a promising new antibiotic in a soil sample from a lab technician's backyard. The ...

That includes cleanrooms where spacecrafts are assembled. These places are designed to minimize dust and microorganisms in ...

A nne Madden is a self-proclaimed “microbe wrangler.” Her inner explorer and scientist emerged during her undergraduate years at Wellesley College, during an internship in Costa Rica. Surrounded by ...

In another, perhaps counterintuitive study, mice that had all their gut bacteria wiped out were protected from gaining as ...

The microbiome shapes development of insulin-producing cells in infancy, leading to long-term changes in metabolism and diabetes risk, new research in mice has found. The results could ultimately help ...

The natural world teems with microorganisms. Billions of species of bacteria, archaea, viruses and fungi make up complex ecosystems in the soil, water and air. The activity of these microbes sustains ...

A team of scientists is trying to jumpstart a global conservation movement, on par with efforts to save the rainforests or protect the oceans. But it might be even more ambitious because the target of ...