The MicroIker group of the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU) has explored the diversity and distribution of ...

A new part of an ocean plant cell has been discovered that might revolutionize farming one day. The structure can take nitrogen and convert it into the ingredient that helps all organisms grow.

This important study shows how the relative importance of inter-species interactions in microbiomes can be inferred from empirical species abundance data. The methods based on statistical physics of ...

Identifying rare microorganisms in microbiome data just got easier. A team of researchers from Portugal and Canada has ...

Emma Lederer, a fourth-year doctorate in biology student who attended the event, said these findings highlight a crucial intersection between microbial ecology and climate change. “A lot of ecology ...

Identifying rare microorganisms in microbiome data just got easier. A team of researchers from Portugal and Canada has ...

"It's one of the Holy Grails of biotechnology," says Jon Zehr, a now-retired microbial ecologist from UC Santa Cruz — the ability to engineer plants that could snatch nitrogen out of the air and ...