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, ...

Soil ecosystems are sustained by intricate networks of microorganisms—bacteria, fungi, archaea and microeukaryotes—that interact with one another, with plant roots and with soil physicochemical ...

The rapid evolution of omic technologies such as spanning genomics, transcriptomics, and proteomics, is reshaping how we ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

Disorders of gut–brain interaction, such as irritable bowel syndrome and functional dyspepsia, are increasingly linked to ...