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Major retailers like Walmart, Costco, and Whole Foods have issued urgent pulls for common pantry broths, citing high-risk ...

Learn how coral reefs drive daily changes in ocean microbes — a process that shapes how nutrients and energy move through ...

Coral reefs appear to run a daily timetable for microscopic life in nearby waters. Scientists found that microbial ...

University of Haifa’s Dr. Derya Akkaynak calls the study 'a critical baseline' that will enable future research to better ...

Antibiotics that escape into the environment are widely recognized as a growing threat to ecosystems, wastewater treatment ...

Rice feeds more than half of the world’s population, but the tiny microbes living on and around rice plants may be just as ...

Microbial assays are a technique to assess a compound’s potency or concentration. This is carried out by exposing microorganisms to the compound and determining its effect on them. Microbial assays ...

That’s what pops to mind when I look at Sebastian Hess’ photos of a kind of plump, violent, single-celled creature he collected from a pond rich in sphagnum moss in southern Germany. The ...

The input of fresh organic matter, and the induced priming effect (PE), has long been recognized as a critical regulator of ...