Far below the reach of sunlight, the deep ocean has long been cast as a biological desert, a place where microbes eke out an ...

For many years, the deep ocean has been seen as a nutrient-poor environment where microbes living in the water survive on ...

Microbes move across the planet, linking ecosystems and spreading genes that shape antibiotic resistance, health, and ...

In a new study published in Cell, scientists in the Bork Group at EMBL Heidelberg reveal that microbes living in similar habitats are more alike than those simply inhabiting the same geographical ...

Microbes have been discovered alive inside 2-billion-year-old rock, offering a rare window into Earth’s deep past. Found in the Bushveld Igneous Complex (BIC) of South Africa, these microscopic ...

The Atacama Desert is one of the most extreme habitats on Earth. Atacama surface soil samples include a mix of DNA from inside and outside living cells. A new technique allows researchers to separate ...

Researchers found that children’s breath carries chemical clues from gut bacteria, opening the door to faster and gentler ...