Nov. 26, 2024 — Engineers and biochemists have brought their skills together to make it possible for untrained users to confirm contamination in fluids using a biogel test that changes color in ...

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First author Dr. Gabriel Tofani added, "Our findings underscore the importance of not only the gut microbiota composition, but also how gut microbes change across the day. By showing that gut ...

The research highlights that gut microbes also regulates key stress-responding brain regions throughout the day. Using microbe transplantation, the team confirmed that oscillations of gut microbes ...

Nov. 21, 2024 — Scientists have long been trying to tease apart hepatitis A virus, to understand its inner workings and how it functions in the human body. Infectious disease researchers have ...

Most of the photosynthesis is carried out by the tiniest microbes, specifically phytoplankton. These single-celled organisms are also the base of the marine food web. One of the most abundant ...

Microbes are single or multicellular microscopic organisms. Plant-microbe interactions can bring benefit or harm to plants. For instance, mycorrhizal fungi can supply plants with nutrients ...

An STD is an infection that you get from someone else by having sex. You can get an STD by having vaginal sex (penis in the vagina), anal sex (penis in the rectum), or oral sex (penis in the mouth ...

Sexually transmitted infection (STI) treatments depend on the type of STI. Bacterial infections, such as gonorrhea and chlamydia, are treated with antibiotics and can be cured. Viral infections, such ...

But the new paper points to microbes as the biggest source of the methane spike. Michel and her co-authors analyzed samples of methane, or CH4, from 22 sites around the globe at a Colorado laboratory.