Understanding the role of our microbiota in health and disease has long been hampered by the strict growth requirements of many of its constituent members. Underpinning modern day investigations into ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Implant surface culturing method had a specificity of 57.1% vs. intraoperative tissue cultures. Implant surface ...

The skin microbiome plays a key role in skin health and disease. While imbalances in skin microbiome composition are linked to disease, studying it has been challenging due to limited methods for ...

High-throughput cultivation (HTC) based on a dilution-to-extinction method has been applied broadly to the cultivation of marine bacterial groups, which has often led to the repeated isolation of ...

Researchers have found that flame-sterilizing shake-flasks, to avoid introducing microbial contaminants, considerably increases the carbon dioxide concentration in the flasks. This enhanced carbon ...

Infection, the invasion and growth of microorganisms, such as bacteria, viruses, or fungi, within the body’s tissues, is a common occurrence in tropical countries, including India. While the body’s ...

Learn how to make lactic acid bacteria to add beneficial microbial life to your garden Marco Thomas from Marco’s Microbes demonstrates how to make lactic acid bacteria from simple kitchen ingredients.

In 1986, Yiu-Kwok Chan from Agriculture Canada identified a new bacterial species. Following standard protocol, he deposited it in the American Type Culture Collection (ATCC), a repository where ...