Micro-organisms constitute a very antique group of living organisms which appeared on the Earth’s surface almost 3000 million years ago. The questions arising from the study of the origin and ...

Alterations in the bacterial composition in various anatomical sites of the human body have been associated with ...

Conservation biologists propose a daunting task: protecting Earth’s diversity of bacteria and other microbes. By Carl Zimmer Hundreds of scientists have joined together to save a group of species from ...

Most bacteria cannot be cultured in the lab-and that's been bad news for medicine. Many of our frontline antibiotics originated from microbes, yet as antibiotic resistance spreads and drug pipelines ...