Climate models are essential to predicting and addressing climate change, but can fail to adequately represent soil microbes, a critical player in ecosystem soil carbon sequestration that affects the ...

The new microbe-explicit soil model (left) versus DayCent’s previous soil model that did not explicitly model microbe activity (right). Of all the carbon stored in ecosystems around the world, about ...

Hundreds of different bacterial species live in the human gut, helping us to digest our food. The metabolic processes of these bacteria are not only tremendously important to our health -- they are ...

Human skin harbors a wide range of microorganisms, including fungi, bacteria, and viruses. In fact, recent estimates indicate that over 10 11 microbial cells could be present on skin surfaces.

In a breakthrough for the advanced study of gut health, NUS scientists have developed a 3D microscopic version of the human intestines condensed into a small chip about half the size of a five-cent ...

A team of microbiologists, chemists and pharmaceutical specialists at Shandong University, Guangzhou Medical University, Second Military Medical University and Qingdao University, all in China, has ...

A University of Oklahoma research team will analyze microbe-climate interactions in greenhouse gases (CO2, CH4 and N2O) from grasslands and croplands in Oklahoma. The four-year, $3 million project ...

Frozen Arctic soil is not silent. When it thaws, microbes wake up in stages, release carbon, and even hunt each other.

The 3D scalable 'gut-on-a-chip' model enables real-time visualisation of the interactions of gut microbes and the human intestine SINGAPORE, Feb. 10, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- In a breakthrough for the ...