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Salt-Loving Earth Microbe Demonstrates Viability for Survival in Harsh Subsurface Martian Conditions
44+ min ago (201+ words) New research reveals that an extremophile organism native to the Dead Sea can actively reproduce under simulated Martian environments, altering the trajectory of astrobiological exploration. The newly tested archaea strain relies on a fascinating biological mechanism to survive these extremes....
There???s a Fungus Among Us
3+ hour, 28+ min ago (430+ words) WARREN COUNTY, OH -- What a summer it has been. The weather isn’t following its usual script. My flower and vegetable gardens aren’t doing as well as in past years. We’re getting a few tomatoes, cucumbers, and okra pods, but certainly…...
Africa: The Soil's Early Warning System - Microbes Can Predict Desertification Before Plants Start to Die
42+ min ago (378+ words) What is microbial ecology, and why is it an important field of research? Microbial ecology is the study of how microorganisms, like bacteria, fungi and the viruses that infect them, interact with one another and their environment. Together, microorganisms exert…...
USM, Pharm-D Develop Halal Postbiotic Technology From Local Resources
7+ hour, 49+ min ago (329+ words) GEORGE TOWN, Penang: Malaysia has developed halal post-biotic technology using local biological resources, including Musang King durian and cabbage, showcasing the country’s ability to turn homegrown research and expertise into high-value scientific innovations. In a statement on Tuesday (Aug. 18), Pharm-D…...
Indian rock yields oldest directly dated traces of microbial life: study - The Hindu
2+ hour, 49+ min ago (233+ words) Published - August 19, 2026 08:30 am IST - NEW DELHI Researchers say they have found “compelling evidence” from multiple sources that microbial life existed in what is now eastern India at least 3.5 billion years ago. Typically these involve finding fossils or traces of organic…...
Diet Tweaks Boost Microbes' Biomaterial Output
3+ hour, 9+ min ago (188+ words) These EPSs are secreted by bacteria into their surroundings, where they form protective layers or biofilms and serve as valuable materials for a wide range of medical and industrial applications. "A simple change in the carbon source dramatically altered the…...
Whose Gut Became "Normal"?
4+ hour, 54+ min ago (285+ words) Is that portrait a picture of human biology? Or is it a picture of a particular way of living — one that happens to be shared by the people who had the funding, the laboratories, and the institutional proximity to get…...
Plants and their fungal partners remain in sync despite changing climate
1+ day, 1+ hour ago (535+ words) Treeline in Niwot Ridge. (Credit: C. Forrester/Niwot Ridge LTER) As warming temperatures shift the timing of snowmelt, a critical water source for high mountain ecosystems, some relationships between organisms, like plants and pollinators, can fall out of sync. But according…...
Diving into reproductive microbiology
9+ hour, 19+ min ago (666+ words) Lucille Jonas did not set out to become a microbiologist. In fact, she arrived at Iowa State University with a very different goal in mind: to become a veterinarian. A general microbiology course in her first year shifted that trajectory…...
On a wind-scoured island off Nova Scotia, closely related feral horses turned out to share more similar gut bacteria than chance allows — and this heritable microbiome is tied to survival and shaped more by company than by bloodline, the first time that combination has been shown in a wild animal.
10+ hour, 14+ min ago (21+ words) A wild horse's survival may depend less on its genes than on the microbes it inherits from its herd....