"We hope the impact of this research will be to guide future studies that keep astronauts healthy during extended space ...

The overly sterile environment of the International Space Station is missing important microbes, a new detailed map shows. If ...

Genomic sequencing has revealed that individual strains of life-threatening, antibiotic-resistant bacteria and Candida auris ...

Learn how the excessive cleanliness of the International Space Station poses health problems for astronauts and why ...

Gut microbes that were thought to feed exclusively on dietary fiber also get fed sugar from our guts, from which they produce short-chain fatty acids that are crucial to many body functions. The ...

Gut microbes that were thought to feed exclusively on dietary fiber also get fed sugar from our guts, from which they produce ...

For millennia, humans have had an unwritten trade deal with the microbes that inhabit our guts. We feed them fiber, and they ...

Frozen ground would seem to stall microbes — especially in winter — but scientists have been finding robust emissions of ...

“Future built environments, including space stations, could benefit from intentionally fostering diverse microbial ...

Elisa Caffrey, a microbiology and immunology doctoral candidate at Stanford University, agrees, noting the potential of ...

Humans have evolved alongside microbes in Earth's environment that help strengthen our immune systems. But sterile living ...

We can’t see them, but there are more microbes — tiny fungi, bacteria, worms and other living things — in a teaspoon of soil ...