Microscopic organisms such as bacteria and fungi live together in neighborhoods known as microbial consortia. Some of these neighborhoods naturally exist in soils, food, water, and even the human gut ...
The infection rate of one type of carbapenem-resistant Enterobacterales bacteria has risen by more than 460 percent in recent ...
Soils with a variety of microplastics may allow microbes that perform denitrification processes to thrive; this could cause ...
Pneumonia, bloodstream infections, urinary tract infections, meningitis and wound infections are extremely hard to treat and ...
People have a more than tripled risk of pancreatic cancer if their mouths contain 27 types of bacteria and fungi, including ...
Prolonged droughts followed by sudden bursts of rainfall -- how do desert soil bacteria manage to survive such harsh conditions? This long-debated question has now been answered by microbiologists.