Soils release approximately 40–60 petagrams (Pg) of carbon annually into the atmosphere through microbial metabolism. Climate warming is projected to further enhance soil microbial respiration, ...

Microbial load is a crucial but often overlooked factor in understanding the associations between the gut microbiome and various diseases. Researchers in the group of Peer Bork, PhD, at EMBL ...

Scientists have developed a new machine-learning model to predict microbial load — the density of microbes in our guts — and used it to demonstrate how microbial load plays an important role in ...

The intricate roles of soil microorganisms in ecological processes such as organic matter decomposition, nutrient cycling, ...

In a new study, researchers have determined through both statistical analysis and in experiments that soil pH is a driver of microbial community composition -- but that the need to address toxicity ...

In sickness or in health, the billions of microorganisms that inhabit our guts are our constant companions throughout life. In the past few decades, scientists have shown how the nature of this ...

A recent study shows that bacteria living inside colorectal tumors form distinct ecosystems that are closely linked to how ...

Nutrition intake fundamentally shapes the composition and function of the gut microbiota, and dysregulation of this microbial ecosystem is a primary driver ...

Soils release approximately 40–60 petagrams (Pg) of carbon annually into the atmosphere through microbial metabolism. Climate warming is projected to further enhance soil microbial respiration, ...