Tag: microbes

Gut microbiota by-products circulate in the bloodstream, regulating host physiological processes including immunity, metabolism and brain functions. Scientists from the ...

Gut microbes can regulate the exocrine and endocrine functions of the pancreas and hormone production of the gastrointestinal tract, findings ...

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Treating babies with antibiotics in the first week of life is linked with a decrease in ...

Figure 1. A principal component analysis (PCA) for the 20 survey subjects. (A) clearly shows two distinct clusters: left blue ...

BUENOS AIRES — A team of Argentine scientists is using microorganisms native to Antarctica to clean up pollution from fuels ...

To get through a long winter without food, hibernating animals — like the 13-lined ground squirrel — can slow their ...

There is more going on in the deep, dark ocean waters than you may think: Uncountable numbers of invisible microorganisms ...

Every day, the billions of bacteria that inhabit your digestive system change; the food you eat, medications you take, and ...

If the petrochemical industry is ever to wean itself off oil and gas, it has to find sustainably-sourced chemicals that ...

It sounds like modern-day alchemy: Transforming sugar into hydrocarbons found in gasoline. But that’s exactly what scientists have done. In a ...