Infectious microbes have evolved sophisticated means to invade host cells, outwit the body’s defenses and cause disease. While researchers have tried to puzzle out the complicated interactions between ...

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 ...

Prof. Kabiru Akinyemi of the Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Science, Lagos State University(LASU) has sought the creation of a bacterial culture repository in the Microbiology Laboratory at ...

An estimated 1 trillion species of microorganisms reside on Earth, yet scientists have been able to study less than two percent of them. Because many microorganisms cannot be cultivated in ...

A new method for producing yogurt has been developed by a research team at the DTU National Food Institute, and it all began with a straightforward question. "We've studied lactic acid bacteria and ...

The global food crisis is increasing due to rapid population growth and declining food productivity to climate change. Moreover, today's food production and supply system emit a huge amount of carbon ...

For a long time, the formation, change, and maintenance mechanisms of microbial communities induced by microgravity have only been studied to a limited extent in the International Space Station, ...

Researchers have developed a new antibiotic that reduced or eliminated drug-resistant bacterial infections in mouse models of acute pneumonia and sepsis while sparing healthy microbes in the mouse gut ...