Other studies have shown dog owners have differences in their microbiomes, including greater microbial diversity, compared to ...

A mineral-hogging fungus can “bully” bacteria into becoming more antibiotic resistant, according to new work published June 20 in the journal PLOS Biology by Fred Hutch Cancer Center scientists. The ...

Plastic waste is a major problem around the world. About 7 billion of the 9.2 billion tons of plastic that was generated from 1950 to 1970 became trash and was not recycled. Between 1980 and 2018, the ...

A new study appearing in Nature Microbiology analyzes soils sampled across the state of Kansas to determine the importance of ...

When weird fungal epidemics crop up in far-flung places, scientists work together to unravel how the microscopic murderers ...

Humanity’s first homes on Mars may not be poured from concrete or assembled from sleek prefabricated modules, but grown from living microbes that turn alien dust into stone. Instead of shipping heavy ...

The fungus Candida albicans lives in the gut and exacerbates gastrointestinal disease under certain conditions.. (Salt Lake City) - Bacteria's role in gut health has received a lot of attention in ...

Mold was found at Chernobyl in 1997, and later scientists noticed radiation at the reactor was attracting numerous types of fungi.

In 2018, researchers even sent one of the Chernobyl molds, a strain dubbed Cladosporium sphaerospermum, to the International ...

A creative solution for plastic pollution may be hiding in the Swiss Alps and the Arctic. These chilly environments house tons of microbes with unique traits, as scientists have discovered in recent ...