Cannibal ‘supergiant’ microbe found hunting and devouring members of own species - Findings could change how we understand ...

Scientists commonly use bacteria as tiny factories that can produce molecules for uses ranging from drug development to ...

A surprising new discovery suggests that tiny microbes living inside fish may be helping shape the chemistry of the world’s ...

The ocean is full of invisible workers. Trillions of microbes quietly break down carbon-containing organic matter, which ...

A scanning electron microscope image of a supergiant Euplotes gigatrox cell. (Ben Larson/Samuel Lord) A newly discovered ...

Ocean microbes control Earth's carbon cycle. Scientists found a simpler way to understand how these tiny organisms shape our ...

Although the researchers did not create an entire cell that could function without a crucial building block, the findings ...

Postdoctoral researcher Abhilash Nair at Columbia University studies how diet-induced changes shape gut microbiota dynamics ...

Even people who lose weight using a GLP-1 drug find it difficult to maintain their weight loss once treatment stops ...

Why do some people recover easily from bacterial infections while others rapidly deteriorate into life-threatening sepsis?

Researchers have discovered that gut microbes may influence where beetles lay their eggs and affect their offspring.

Losing weight is hard. Keeping it off is often even harder. Research has shown that most people who intentionally lose weight ...