The third in a series of columns about the origins of Austin street names includes the tale of a strange tonic that made an ...

The study highlights FAAH's role in gut microbiota, showing its potential in improving growth and health in malnourished ...

Instead, the microbe relies on an alternative metabolic pathway in which carbon dioxide is converted to an organic molecule called acetate, without any methane released in the process.

Research from Hong Kong scientists suggests that some of the microbes found in urban environments are evolving to resist the ...

To address childhood malnutrition—which affects 200 million children globally—researchers at Washington University School of ...

Readers of the "Austin Answered" column adore the subject of area street names. Or, for that matter, the names of Central Texas parks, creeks, buildings and neighborhoods. On Sept. 3, we discussed ...

There’s no question we’ll keep finding really, really interesting biology in these vents. I can’t stress enough that this was ...

A unique strain of cyanobacteria, or algae, isolated from volcanic ocean vents has been found by an international team of ...

Culturing, a term for growing microorganisms in the laboratory, is a basic yet indispensable method in microbiology research. Microorganisms are often ...

We naturally pick up microorganisms as we move about the world. Now, researchers have developed an AI tool that accurately ...

New research from reveals that the gut microbiome regulates the body's diurnal (day-night) rhythms in stress hormones. Depletion of gut microbiota results in disruptions in the brain's core circadian ...

The growing microbial resistance to traditional medicines necessitates in-depth analysis of medicine-microbe interactions (MMIs) to develop new therapeutic strategies. Widely used artificial ...