The Simons Foundation has established a new collaboration investigating the mysteries of nature’s smallest communities. Called the Simons Collaboration on Theory of Microbial Ecosystems, or THE-ME, it ...

When we think about Antarctica, many people imagine penguins, seals and whales. However, the majority of Antarctica's ...

Beneath the forest floor extends a vast ecosystem where a diverse array of microorganisms inhabit soil and root systems. Here ...

Applied Microbiology International members have urged the European Commission to make microbial communities and microbiome ...

Beneath every breath you take, every meal you digest, and every drop of rain that falls into the ocean, there are invisible engineers at work. They build no skyscrapers and leave no fingerprints, yet ...

Dynamic changes of soil microbial networks and key species during the restoration process of artificial vegetation to native forests on tropical coral islands. The ecosystem of tropical coral islands ...

The rapid recession of the Dead Sea generates novel extreme aquatic environments, necessitating a comprehensive assessment of their spatiotemporal ecological dynamics and unexplored biodiversity.

CAMBRIDGE, MA -- As sea levels rise due to climate change, encroaching sea water will likely make freshwater environments saltier. In a new study, MIT researchers have shown how that increase in ...

A six-year analysis of marine microbes in coastal California waters has overturned long-held assumptions about how the ocean's smallest organisms interact. Researchers at UC San Diego’s Scripps ...

Immune checkpoint inhibitors targeting PD-1 and PD-L1 have revolutionized cancer therapy, delivering long-term survival benefits in several malignancies. However, nearly half of patients show limited ...

A new narrative review argues that Salmonella persistence in poultry is governed by microbial communication networks spanning ...