These bacteria don’t eat food or breathe air like we do. All they need is to complete a circuit; that’s enough for them to live.

You will likely have heard of probiotics. These are live microorganisms that, when consumed in sufficient amounts, can benefit health. They occur naturally in foods such as yoghurt, kefir, kimchi and ...

More than 3.5 billion years ago, the Earth was not the hospitable world we know today. The atmosphere lacked oxygen, the seas ...

Ensuring pharmaceutical safety and efficacy hinges on rigorous quality control (QC). By identifying potential microbial contaminants early in drug development and production, microbial QC tests ...

From an animal perspective, elevated microbial pressure drives early microbiome evolution which is foundational to intestinal ...

People have long said that "bread is life." Now, researchers at Tufts University are using the bubbling mixtures of flour and ...