Researchers in Leiden have, for the first time, observed how a specialized enzyme helps bacteria stay alive when oxygen ...

Fermentation is one of the oldest methods of preserving food. Long before refrigerators existed, people relied on ...

"The microbiome is made up of millions of bacteria and yeast that live in your gastrointestinal system and affect your health." ...

The gut microbiome—the trillions of bacteria and other microbes that inhabit the gastrointestinal tract—drives a process vital for protecting the colon against tissue injury, according to the findings ...

One reason plastic waste persists in the environment is because there’s not much that can eat it. The chemical structure of most polymers is stable and different enough from existing food sources that ...

Some bacteria are able to tap into unusual sources of nutrients in the surface water of the oceans. This enables them to increase their primary production and extract more carbon dioxide from the ...

In a groundbreaking scientific development, a strain of bacteria that can produce pure gold has been discovered. This finding opens up new and exciting possibilities for gold extraction techniques ...

By eating certain foods and taking probiotic supplements — or ‘gut health supplements’ — you can may be able to change your ...

Plastics, medicines, cosmetics—there are very few everyday products that do not rely on using fossil resources. A European ...

Researchers developed a model showing gut bacteria can significantly affect how many calories the body absorbs from food.