Experts build database of "salutogenic potential" revealing how hidden microbes and natural compounds help keep us healthy.

The Krauter Lab probes the relationship between human microbial populations and human development and disease. They combine genetic analyses, environmental assessments and high-throughput DNA sequence ...

Now, a team of researchers have curated the largest-ever database of microorganisms from more than 2,500 different foods. 4 The collection, published in Cell, includes over 500 new microbial species ...

Conservation biologists propose a daunting task: protecting Earth’s diversity of bacteria and other microbes. By Carl Zimmer Hundreds of scientists have joined together to save a group of species from ...

An international group of researchers has recently warned the broader scientific community and the public of the risks of mirror life—specifically, the creation of mirror microbes by scientists in the ...

Viruses and bacteria get a bad rap around the world, but now Flinders University experts are identifying the positive "upside ...

With so many coral reefs bleaching and pangolins being poached, it may seem tone-deaf to call for the conservation of species that are too small to see with the naked eye. But that’s exactly what the ...