Devoid of light and deprived of nutrients, the depths of Earth might seem too barren to bother scouring for signs of life. But subterranean microbial organisms actually make up an enormous part of our ...

Infectious bacteria seem to have been gaining the upper hand in recent years, as more and more infections become tough to treat and bacteria gain resistance to more antibiotics. The World Health ...

Accounting for more than 15 percent of Earth’s biomass, microbes have colonized the planet from pole to pole where they influence ecology through the small molecules they create. 1 Despite their ...

There is so much we don't know about microbes, even while these organisms are the most numerous on the planet. A recent study called our understanding of microbial life 'profoundly ignorant,' and ...

By Sean Mowbray Invisible in their trillions, microbes dwell in our bodies, grow in soils, live on trees and are integral to ...