Remember when Japan sent a spacecraft to an asteroid 180 million miles away to scoop some dirt off the surface? Six years on ...

(mr.suphachai praserdumrongchai/iStock/Getty Images) Past studies have found that gut activity can have significant impacts on the brain, and vice versa. Now, new research in mice explains how some of ...

Researchers at Emory University have found that live gut bacteria can travel to the brain in mice fed a high-fat diet, a finding that challenges long-held assumptions about the brain’s isolation from ...

Bacteria and the viruses that infect them are perpetually at war. Their deadly clashes push both kinds of microbes to evolve ...

Scientists have engineered a common probiotic bacterium to act like a microscopic drug factory that hunts down tumors and delivers cancer-killing compounds directly where they’re needed. Credit: ...

The quest for new antibiotics is going back to the Stone Age. The urgency to identify possible candidates has never been greater as the global population faces nearly 5 million deaths every year that ...

Researchers have identified two gut bacteria that can produce serotonin, a key chemical that regulates bowel movements. In experiments with mice lacking serotonin, the microbes boosted serotonin ...

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. The tiny world of microorganisms is full of microbes competing in ...

When some bacteria manage to escape being killed by a virus, the microbes end up hamstringing themselves. And that could be useful in the fight to treat infections. “We’re kind of expecting phage ...