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How does evolution select the fittest “individuals” when they are ecosystems made up of hosts and their microbiomes? Biologist debate the need to revise theories.
Maria-Luiza Pedrotti is illuminating the unseen worlds of plastic-eating bacteria that teem in massive ocean garbage patches.
The dizzying network of interactions within microbe communities can defy analysis. But a new approach simplifies the math and makes progress possible.
Kidneys sniff out signals from gut bacteria for cues to lower blood pressure after meals. Our understanding of how the symbiotic microbes affect health is becoming much more molecular.
The soil teems with billions of hidden microbes. Researchers have begun to catalog how these organisms are changing the world.
A new theory suggests that cooperation between a host and its microbes may be a significant evolutionary force.
New technologies have launched the life sciences into the age of big data. Biologists must now make sense of their windfall.