Is “My microbes made me do it” a valid legal defense? A few years ago, a Belgian man in his 30s drove into a lamppost. Twice. Local authorities found that his blood alcohol level was four ...

Designer microbe shows promise for reducing mercury absorption from seafood UCLA and UCSD research suggests a probiotic could one day increase the benefits of eating fish Date: May 1, 2025 Source: ...

A new study shows that adding fruit and microbes to alfalfa, a protein-rich feed for livestock, improves fermentation and biogas production. Alfalfa is more than a protein-rich feed for livestock ...

As the impact of these microorganisms on our well-being becomes clearer, scientists say new remedies for disease are likely to emerge. Escherichia coli, the yellow rods clustered on a purple ...

He says that finding the same ability in pathogens often present in hospitals could explain why these microbes persist in these environments. “If a pathogen can degrade plastic, then it could ...

Researchers at the University of Colorado Boulder and Oak Ridge National Laboratory have developed a new way to identify genetic changes that help tiny oxygen-producing microbes survive in extreme ...

Mysterious microbes living in wetlands in China have helped to narrow down when the ancestor of all animals and plants lived – and the oxygenation of Earth’s atmosphere may have played a key ...

"This research gives us new clues to understand how far cooperation between microbes can go when the environment becomes hostile," concludes Melero-Jiménez. More information: Ignacio J.

Researchers at Umeå University, Sweden, and Michigan State University, U.S., have discovered a type of molecule that can kill chlamydia bacteria, but spare bacteria that are important for health.

Ancient oxygen-making microbes may have oxygenated large swaths of Earth’s seafloor hundreds of millions of years before the element filled the atmosphere. Geochemical analysis of sediments ...

The human gut is home to trillions of microbes that not only aid in digestion but also play a key role in shaping our immune system. These microbes communicate with the body by releasing a range ...