A new study finds that microorganisms live in richly diverse and interdependent communities in high-temperature geothermal environments in the deep sea. By constructing genomes of 3,635 Bacteria and ...

Nottingham Trent University provides funding as a member of The Conversation UK. Fermentation, one of the oldest food production and preservation techniques, has seen a huge revival in recent years.

Trillions of gut bacteria may play a bigger role in heart disease than once thought. South Korean researchers compared gut ...

The ability of cells to self-destruct appears to be essential for cellular life. However, the existence of genetically programmed death pathways in single-cell organisms has been long debated. Thus, ...