The gut microbiome is made up of trillions of microbes that play a vital role in keeping us healthy. A disturbance in the balance of these microbes can contribute to a variety of health conditions, ...

Hundreds of different bacterial species live in the human gut, helping us to digest our food. The metabolic processes of these bacteria are not only tremendously important to our health -- they are ...

Ancient microbes tied to our earliest ancestors could use oxygen, reshaping ideas about how complex life began on Earth.

There are huge communities of gut bacteria living in and on our bodies, and they can have a profound effect on us. New research has shown that gut bacteria | Microbiology ...

Prof LIM Chwee Teck (seated), together with Dr Nishanth Venugopal MENON (right) and Dr LEE Jee Yeon (left), from the National University of Singapore, jointly developed the new ‘gut-on-chip’ platform.

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 ...

The role of soil and forests in greenhouse gas sequestration has been studied for a long time. However, forests are also home to invisible organisms that may affect the climate. "Soil, water and ...

Far below the reach of sunlight, the deep ocean has long been cast as a biological desert, a place where microbes eke out an ...

The 3D scalable 'gut-on-a-chip' model enables real-time visualisation of the interactions of gut microbes and the human intestine SINGAPORE, Feb. 10, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- In a breakthrough for the ...