A University of Arizona study finds scientists are discovering 16,000 new species annually — and DNA tools may reveal ...

Medically reviewed by Qin Rao, MD Key Takeaways Polyphenols act as prebiotics by encouraging the growth of good gut bacteria and inhibiting harmful bacteria.Probiotics restore balance in the gut by ...

New research shows that organisms are able to survive and even thrive in the dry, salty soil of the Atacama Desert.

Intact ecosystems have the capacity for self-regulation, which keeps their complex structure of species—such as animals, ...

Florian Schattenmann, Cargill’s chief technology officer, explains how a technology that's been around for decades could help ...

Mold and fungus do not wait on the sidelines. They move fast, spread faster, and attack when plants sit at their most ...

A common type of error-correcting mechanism in biology is called kinetic proofreading. For example, if errors turn up when cells are making new DNA, enzymes can cut out incorrect nucleotides. They can ...

In the desert areas of Namibia, Oman, and Saudi Arabia, research work has revealed unusual structures that are probably due to the activity of an unknown microbiological life form. Unusually small ...

Abstract: Infections from microorganisms have become a significant threat to the growth and even life of the world in the past few decades. Most microorganisms pose a low-level danger to human life ...

Abstract: The solution is considered by learning on examples of object classification problems described by a set of data with a large number of degrees of freedom - color images, multidimensional ...