What we eat doesn’t just affect our bodies — it also shapes the evolution of the trillions of microbes living inside us. A ...

Our eyes see everything around them, but cannot see themselves. To see themselves, they need a mirror. Scientists often use mirrors to study self-consciousness in animals. They place a mark on the ...

New studies show that a bacterial molecule, peptidoglycan, is present in the brain and fluctuates with sleep patterns. This challenges the idea that sleep is solely brain-driven, instead suggesting it ...

A UCLA Nature study finds gut bacteria are rapidly evolving via gene sharing to digest ultra-processed foods, showing modern ...

Newly published research in the peer-reviewed journal Nature Cancer suggests that bacteria inside brain tumors may play a far more active role in how cancers grow, spread and respond to treatment than ...

But a major obstacle to this approach has been that many of these microbes are dormant, or inactive, in the soil—and microbes must become active to colonize plant roots, moving into and living inside ...

The European Research Council (ERC) will fund Prof. Anupam Sengupta’s research into how bacteria interact with and control light, and possible opportunities for new imaging technologies. The grant of ...