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University of California San Diego researchers have developed a new tool for understanding and modifying any microbiome, ...

Soil inoculants for beans and corn can provide positive improvements for the health of your row crops. You can determine which corn and soybean inoculant is best suited to your needs by learning more ...

Your gut microbiome is home to trillions of microorganisms, including bacteria and viruses. Some foods—especially ultra-processed ones—can encourage the growth of harmful microbes. Foods rich in ...

Probiotics have become a buzzword in grocery aisles and on social media, in part because of a growing body of research highlighting the importance of a healthy gut microbiome – the body’s vast ...

Studies have shown that adding molasses or other sugars to the soil before planting crops is beneficial. Learn how to use ...

Garden beds don’t run on luck—they run on life. Beneath every thriving plant sits a bustling underground world of microbes, ...

Through photosynthesis, plants use sunlight to convert water and carbon dioxide into energy-rich carbon compounds such as glucose. These compounds not only sustain the plant's own growth and ...

Researchers have developed a powerful new tool that can track how microbes spread between people with unprecedented precision, offering new ways to prevent infections and improve treatments based on ...

Share on Pinterest Researchers have developed a new antibiotic that effectively fights several bacteria while sparing helpful bacteria in the gut. Guido Mieth/Getty Images Antibiotics are valuable in ...

Antarctic marine worms survive with a little help from their bacterial friends. Close relatives of earthworms, polychaetes are some of the most common animals on the ocean floor, but how these species ...