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Long viewed simply as ‘germs,’ the hidden half of nature turns out to be crucial to the health of people and plants.
ESA’s second mission to Mars has become prey to the curse of the Red Planet – although the orbiter is heading for success, the Schiaparelli lander seems to have disappeared.
Rocks on Mars are surprisingly similar to those on Earth.
Food poisoning or allergies – which to go for.
There’s now strong evidence that Europa might be a worthwhile place to search for life.
Just like humans, corals live with myriad microscopic organisms. We are just starting to understand this unseen world.
Microbial-based solutions are perhaps the best-kept secret in agricultural innovation.
The advent of electron microscopy and nanobiology has moved our appreciation of the living world to unprecedentedly small scales – with entirely new benefits and potential pitfalls to consider.
You gotta have guts to succeed at Rio 2016 – and very healthy ones, at that.
Do you know your parasites from your gut commensals? Read this and you will.
There’s more to fermented foods than a good meal. Scientists are learning just how such foods encourage the growth of probiotics and how this keeps people healthy.
Microbes have the ability to survive in extremely hot and cold conditions. This makes them invaluable tools for research: they can teach us how life has evolved and how we survive.
Genetic analysis shows that marine bacteria broke down much of the oil from the 2010 Deepwater Horizon spill. These findings could lead to more effective cleanups after future spills.
A combination of factors – pollution, disease and overfishing – is harming corals but scientists have found clues to effective treatment by studying corals’ microbiome.
Many of us spend our working lives in offices - but few of us are familiar with the other life forms that share our desks.
How microbes are the key ingredients when it comes to concocting a gourmet menu.
The world’s ‘drylands’ – already home to 38% of the world’s people – are set to dry out even more. And that could harm the soil microbes that keep soils healthy and help crops to grow.
Your thoughts, moods and behaviours are the product of your brain. What you eat affects the chemicals in your brain, and thus your moods and behaviours.
Africa’s soil crisis calls for quick and creative action. This includes deepening farmers’ knowledge about soil microbes.
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Senior Lecturer in Clinical Microbiology, University of Leicester
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Professor of Planetary Geosciences, The Open University
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Associate Professor, Department of Entomology; African-American Studies, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
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Doctoral Candidate in Microbiology, University of Oregon
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Professor of Microbiology and Immunology, Indiana University
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Senior Lecturer in Biology, Brunel University of London
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Ecologist and Researcher, Flinders University
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Associate Professor of Gastroenterology, School of Medicine, University of Washington
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Professor emeritus, Colorado State University
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Assistant Professor of Animal and Veterinary Sciences, University of Maine
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Professor of Microbiology, Swinburne University of Technology
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Professor of Biochemistry and Biomedical Sciences, McMaster University
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Professor of microbiology, Manchester Metropolitan University
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Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Washington State University
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Senior Lecturer in Pharmaceutical Sciences, RMIT University