A research team led by Prof. Li Dejun from the Institute of Subtropical Agriculture of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has made significant strides in using synthetic microbial communities (SynCom) to ...

The new project invites the public to submit soil samples from chemically impacted land to investigate how soil microbes evolve to break down or transform chemical contaminants As synthetic pollutants ...

Researchers have identified universal patterns in how soil microbial communities change after disturbances, showing a consistent convergence across ecosystems. Large-scale sequencing and ecological ...

In a study published in Cell Reports Methods, Prof. DAI Lei's team from the Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology (SIAT) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences developed a sequential error-robust ...

Virtually all multicellular organisms on Earth live in symbiotic associations with very large and complex microbial communities known as microbiomes. New research has just been published aimed at ...

Microscopic organisms such as bacteria and fungi live together in neighborhoods known as microbial consortia. Some of these neighborhoods naturally exist in soils, food, water, and even the human gut ...

Chinese liquor fermentation, a tradition spanning thousands of years, is underpinned by complex microbial consortia that shape both flavour and quality. The fermentation process relies on Daqu—a ...

Oceanographers from the University of Hawai'i at Mānoa discovered that microbial communities—from the sunlit surface to ...

Urban environments shape microbial exposure through building design, occupancy, ventilation, moisture, and contact with green ...