Microbes are everywhere on Earth — in clouds in the sky, in the deepest holes ever dug in the Earth, and within and near volcanoes. There is virtually nowhere we've looked on Earth where we ...

Microbial alchemy "Microbes are nature's alchemists," says Braden Tierney, a microbiologist at Harvard Medical School. "They are capable of taking just about any compound or chemical anywhere in ...

"Microbes are everywhere, and the vast majority of them will not make us sick," she said. "The more you attack them with disinfectants, the more they are likely to develop resistance or become more ...

Microbiologists identified over 600 different bacteria-eating viruses on toothbrushes and shower heads. ... In reality, microbes are everywhere, and most of them will not make us sick.

Microbes are everywhere in a food’s life cycle, from enhancing flavors and extending shelf life to driving spoilage. “Food microbiologists have been studying microbes in food for hundreds of years,” ...

“Microbes are everywhere, and the vast majority of them will not make us sick,” she shared. “The more you attack them with disinfectants, the more they are likely to develop resistance or ...

“Microbes are everywhere all the time … We wouldn’t be able to digest our food or fend off infection if we didn’t have our microbes,” Hartmann said.

Those lactic-acid-producing microbes use enzymes to process the simple sugars found in carbs and starches, and turn them into energy. The byproduct of that process is lactic acid (plus, in some ...

There are microbes that have been found in, like, gold mines in South Africa. And they're probably also on the food itself, whether that's flour, whether that's a cabbage.

“Microbes are everywhere all the time … We wouldn’t be able to digest our food or fend off infection if we didn’t have our microbes,” Hartmann said.