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Space miso in packaging

Miso made in space tastes nuttier

Don’t overlook microorganisms’ role in planet health, scientists warn

Bacteria work together to thrive in difficult conditions

woman drinking beer

Killer Yeasts: A Potential Savior for Craft Beer Brewers Battling Spoilage

Fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) confocal microscopy image of deep-sea mussel tissue. The intranuclear parasite Ca. Endonucleobacter is shown in yellow, while beneficial symbiotic bacteria are labeled in green and red. Cell nuclei are stained blue. The right panel zooms in on the white square highlighted in the left panel.

Nuclear Hijackers: Deep-Sea Mussels’ Bacteria Reveal Surprising Survival Tactics

Malassezia globosa

Skin Fungus Found to Accelerate Breast Cancer Growth

Locked in a glacier, viruses adapted to survive extreme weather

Professor Simon Heilbronner is head of the new study. | © LMU / LCProductions

Nasal microbiome: depriving multi-resistant bugs of iron

The first author Thu Vu Phuc Nguyen, left, and Ido Golding investigated how coinfecting phages can impede each other’s entry into a cell.

Viral Traffic Jam: How Bacteria Fend Off Multiple Attackers

This rotifer has just survived a life-threatening infection. When a fungal disease attacked, she switched on hundreds of genes that her ancestors copied from microbes, including antibiotic recipes stolen from bacteria. Notes: This animal is about a quarter of a millimetre long and belongs to the species Adineta ricciae. It has two red eyes on its head.

Tiny Wheel Animals Steal Bacterial Genes to Make Their Own Antibiotics

This image shows a hibernating little brown bat infected with white-nose syndrome.

A stealth fungus has decimated North American bats but scientists may be a step closer to treating white-nose syndrome

Bacteria Bacteroides fragilis, the major component of normal microbiome of human intestine

Gut Imbalance Raises Death Risk in Organ Transplant Patients

Tattoo artist at work on a man's arm

Bacteria detected in tattoo and permanent makeup inks

The best dads in the primate world? Owl monkey fathers take on the role of primary caregiver and only hand their babies back to their female partners for nursing.

Math Says Male Mammals Don’t Breastfeed to Protect Offspring from Harmful Microbes

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