Yibin Zhu’s work highlights how microbiota from both the hosts and vectors can either promote or suppress virus transmission.

Oral biofilms are highly organised microbial communities that form on tooth and mucosal surfaces, embedded within a self-produced matrix of extracellular polymeric substances. Within these structures, ...

A six-year analysis of marine microbes in coastal California waters has overturned long-held assumptions about how the ocean's smallest organisms interact. Researchers at UC San Diego's Scripps ...

Scientists have identified many types of bacteria in the mouth, but many problems remain in understanding how they work with one another. One of the problems is that microbes assemble themselves into ...

Microbial secretion systems are at the core of bacterial physiology, facilitating processes such as protein export, ...

Environmental biotechnology has made major advances in using microbial consortia to produce renewable energy, especially ...

The human microbiome is a dynamic chemical ecosystem where microbes, host cells, and therapeutics continuously exchange molecular signals that shape immunity, disease progression, and treatment ...