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A biodegradable, plant-based coating that can be sprayed onto foods, guarding against pathogenic and spoilage microorganisms and transportation damage has been created as an alternative to plastic food wrap.

The local environment plays a pivotal role in the health and diversity of the gut microbiome of wild bees which could help detect invisible stressors and early indicators of potential threats, suggests a new study.

Multiomics studies have enabled insights into the carbon cycle of microbial communities found in biological crusts in arid regions.

A new study finds that a unique combination drug strategy could activate natural killer cells to reinvigorate T cells to attack melanoma tumors.

Researchers have tried a new approach that consists of manipulating the microbiome to achieve a potential therapeutic strategy to treat acne without affecting its equilibrium.

Researchers have now demonstrated that oral immunotherapy, effective against peanut allergies, is even safer for pre-schoolers than it is for toddlers and older pre-schoolers.

Compared to their pre-trial microbiome, men who drank either one alcoholic or non-alcoholic lager daily had a more diverse set of gut microbes, which can reduce the risk for some diseases.

Adult flu vaccination rates have declined in states with low rates of Covid-19 vaccination, which researchers say may be a harbinger of declining trust in public health, suggesting that COVID-19 vaccination behavior has spilled over to flu vaccination behavior.

Water-borne microbes require copper for denitrification, a process that releases nitrogen. Without copper, the microbes release nitrous oxide, a potent greenhouse gas.

While we continue to fight the pandemic of the present – COVID-19 – scientists are using modern technologies to uncover new findings about the pandemics of the past. A new study published in Nature outlines the use of ancient DNA analysis to uncover the history of the Black Death.