Charcoal is a common soil amendment, but different types provide different benefits, from improved drainage to decreasing the amount of bacteria in the soil.

Ancient hot springs in Japan reveal how microbes adapted to Earth’s first oxygen, offering insights into early life.

Nontuberculous mycobacteria (NTM) are known as atypical mycobacteria. That means they’re related to tuberculosis, but they don’t cause the same disease. In fact, NTM are generally harmless. That’s a ...

Tuberculosis (TB) is an infectious disease that typically affects the lungs, though it can also involve other body parts. When it affects the lungs, it’s called pulmonary TB. TB outside of the lung is ...

More than 90% of plastic waste ends up in the soil, where it breaks down into microplastics that are invisible to the naked ...

They also linked pancreatic cancer to three bacteria already known to contribute to gum disease — Porphyromonas gingivalis, ...

Vaccines are medications that are used to make people immune to certain diseases. They contain the bacteria or virus, or parts of the bacteria or virus, that cause illness and disease. The bacteria or ...

A German-Austrian team led by Friedrich Schiller University Jena and Leibniz-HKI has been able to biochemically demonstrate ...

While probiotic supplements have been touted as a gut-health booster, recent research shows why three groups of people may ...

Soils with a variety of microplastics may allow microbes that perform denitrification processes to thrive; this could cause ...

Microscopy methods that reveal the spatial patterns of individual types of microbe are limited by the number of different species that can be monitored together. A new technique now provides progress ...