Cancer is one of the causes responsible for the most deaths worldwide; in 2020, for example, it resulted in ten million deaths. It has been estimated that micro-organism infections caused between ...

What’s more, cooling and refrigerating certain foods like rice, potatoes and pasta boosts their resistant starch.

How this fungus influences the development of melanoma cells has for the first time been explained by the MicrobiomicsEHU ...

Antimicrobial resistance - when bacteria and fungi defend themselves against the drugs design to kill them - is an urgent threat to global public health, according to the Centers for Disease Control ...

Bacteria in the human gut can directly deliver proteins into human cells, actively shaping immune responses. A consortium led ...

Scientists are warning that a little-known group of microbes called free-living amoebae may pose a growing global health threat. Found in soil and water, some species can survive extreme heat, ...

Postbiotics are beneficial compounds produced when gut bacteria, including probiotics, break down prebiotics. In other words, ...

More than 3.5 billion years ago, the Earth was not the hospitable world we know today. The atmosphere lacked oxygen, the seas ...

While mirror bacteria may sound like a fun time, a group of 40 renowned scientists conclude it is probably not worth the risk.

Our gut is home to a micro-universe of tiny powerhouses, complete with their own genes and immune and metabolic profiles, ...

You’ve surely heard of probiotics, which can help maintain a healthy gut for better digestion, nutrient absorption and immune support. But a budding class of probiotics called “psychobiotics” is being ...