Your gut is home to trillions of bacteria that constantly “sense” their surroundings to survive and thrive. New research shows that beneficial gut microbes, especially common Clostridia bacteria, can ...

Following one of the largest sewage spills in U.S. history, University of Maryland researchers have detected high levels of ...

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Scientists studying thousands of rats discovered that gut bacteria are shaped by both personal genetics and the genetics of social partners. Some genes promote certain microbes that can spread between ...

In a new study, terrestrial bacteria-infecting viruses were still able to infect their E. coli hosts in near-weightless "microgravity" conditions aboard the International Space Station, but the ...

The term psychrotrophs (also denominated psychrotolerant) refers to microorganisms that have the ability to grow at low temperatures but have optimal and maximal growth temperatures above 15 and 20 °C ...

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