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

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 ...

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 ...

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

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