Simulations and patient data indicated that it’s not just which gut microbes are present, but also how they interact, that ...

Scientists have identified a new way to distinguish healthy guts from diseased ones and track how some illnesses progress by measuring how gut bacteria interact with one another. According to a study ...

To measure how bacterial communities shift between health and disease, the team developed a new metric called the Ecological ...

How do evolutionarily conserved pathogen effectors maintain structural stability while engaging diverse host targets? In a new study published in Molecular Plant Microbe Interactions, researchers at ...

Learn how octopuses use microbial signals to detect rotten food and unviable eggs.

Harmful algal blooms are not all the same. That's true even of the blooms within northwest Ohio, where researchers have long known that the strain of cyanobacteria that typically dominates blooms in ...

Emerging evidence supports the skin microbiome as a promising avenue for precision medicine in the treatment of dermatologic diseases.

In a recent study, researchers investigated the interactions between Pyricularia oryzae, the rice blast fungus, and the beneficial soil bacterium Streptomyces griseus. They found that P. oryzae ...

The land-water ecotones, such as coastal areas, wetlands, riverine zones, and aquifer recharge areas, serve as important transition zones, fostering intricate biogeochemical processes between ...