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Microbial Ecology
Microbial Ecology: (or environmental microbiology) is the ecology of microorganisms: their relationship with one another and with their environment. It concerns the three major domains of life-Eukaryota, Archaea, and Bacteria-as well as viruses. Microorganisms, by their omnipresence, impact the entire biosphere.
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APR 11, 2025Earth & The Environment
The Earth's Critical Zone encompasses our air, water, and earth, all of the organisms within them, and the processes tha ...Written By: Carmen LeitchAPR 02, 2025Earth & The Environment
Scientists have grown algae that was collected from the bottom of the Baltic Sea, and which probably sank about 7,000 ye ...Written By: Carmen LeitchJAN 29, 2025Earth & The Environment
When PFAS were developed, companies found a huge number of ways to apply them to different products. But while they have ...Written By: Carmen LeitchJAN 21, 2025Microbiology
The world is full of microorganisms, and there are still many that we know nothing about. Scientists have embarked on a ...Written By: Carmen LeitchJAN 07, 2025Microbiology
Bacterial cells have lots of interesting abilities. They can pass a kind of memory onto offspring; easily share genes; a ...Written By: Carmen LeitchJAN 06, 2025Earth & The Environment
Antibiotic-resistant bacteria are already directly responsible for the deaths of an estimated 1.7 million people every y ...Written By: Carmen LeitchDEC 23, 2024Earth & The Environment
Two new studies have outlined new ways to capture small amounts of carbon, and which could be scalable for larger applic ...Written By: Carmen LeitchDEC 22, 2024Microbiology
The trillions of microbes in the gastrointestinal tract, known as the gut microbiome, have a major impact on human healt ...Written By: Carmen LeitchDEC 11, 2024Cell & Molecular Biology
Image © S. Ahmerkamp/Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology shows a newly found endosymbiontWritten By: Carmen LeitchNOV 27, 2024Microbiology
Archaea are microorganisms that were only discovered in the 1970s, and about which scientists still have a lot to learn. ...Written By: Carmen LeitchNOV 25, 2024Cell & Molecular Biology
The significance of the human gut microbiome, a vast community of microbes in the gastrointestinal tract, has been known ...Written By: Carmen LeitchNOV 12, 2024Earth & The Environment
The eruption of Mount St. Helens in 1980 scattered roughly 540 million tons of ash over an area of more than 22,000 squa ...Written By: Carmen LeitchOCT 09, 2024Cell & Molecular Biology
Endosymbiotic organisms have to live inside of another to survive, and this relationship often provides benefits for bot ...Written By: Carmen LeitchAUG 04, 2024Microbiology
Zoonotic diseases jump species to infect humans, and scientists have been studying the links in this transmission netwro ...Written By: Carmen LeitchJUL 08, 2024Microbiology
Pseudomonas aeruginosa is a bacterium that can be found throughout the environment. It can also cause deadly, multidrug- ...Written By: Carmen LeitchJUL 02, 2024Microbiology
Single-celled organisms have managed to make a home almost everywhere, including inside the many animals' guts and in ne ...Written By: Carmen LeitchJUL 01, 2024Cell & Molecular Biology
Many studies have highlighted the importance of getting enough fiber like fruits, vegetables, and whole grains in our di ...Written By: Carmen LeitchJUN 12, 2024Microbiology
In the late 1970s, a new branch was added to the tree of life, and archaea joined bacteria and eukarya, as domain classi ...Written By: Carmen LeitchMAY 29, 2024Earth & The Environment
The climate is changing, and the average temperature of the planet continues to get warmer. Parts of 2023 were about 1.5 ...Written By: Carmen LeitchMAY 03, 2024Microbiology
Archaea are a relatively recently discovered group of microorganisms that occupy their own branch on the tree of life. T ...Written By: Carmen LeitchAPR 12, 2024Cell & Molecular Biology
Bacteria are only the only organisms that are able to 'fix' nitrogen, or remove it from the atmosphere and convert it in ...Written By: Carmen LeitchFEB 26, 2024Microbiology
Some soils in Iceland like those in this image are heated naturally, giving scientists like Dr Christina Kaiser a chance ...Written By: Carmen LeitchFEB 16, 2024Microbiology
Organic life on earth dies, and when that happens, it must decompose. Most decomposing organic material on Earth is dead ...Written By: Carmen LeitchJAN 23, 2024Neuroscience
Insights into how psychological stress disrupts intestinal stem cell function.Written By: Amielle Moreno
APR 11, 2025
Earth & The Environment
The Earth's Critical Zone encompasses our air, water, and earth, all of the organisms within them, and the processes tha
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
APR 02, 2025
Earth & The Environment
Scientists have grown algae that was collected from the bottom of the Baltic Sea, and which probably sank about 7,000 ye
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JAN 29, 2025
Earth & The Environment
When PFAS were developed, companies found a huge number of ways to apply them to different products. But while they have
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JAN 21, 2025
Microbiology
The world is full of microorganisms, and there are still many that we know nothing about. Scientists have embarked on a
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JAN 07, 2025
Microbiology
Bacterial cells have lots of interesting abilities. They can pass a kind of memory onto offspring; easily share genes; a
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JAN 06, 2025
Earth & The Environment
Antibiotic-resistant bacteria are already directly responsible for the deaths of an estimated 1.7 million people every y
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
DEC 23, 2024
Earth & The Environment
Two new studies have outlined new ways to capture small amounts of carbon, and which could be scalable for larger applic
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
DEC 22, 2024
Microbiology
The trillions of microbes in the gastrointestinal tract, known as the gut microbiome, have a major impact on human healt
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
DEC 11, 2024
Cell & Molecular Biology
Image © S. Ahmerkamp/Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology shows a newly found endosymbiont
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
NOV 27, 2024
Microbiology
Archaea are microorganisms that were only discovered in the 1970s, and about which scientists still have a lot to learn.
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
NOV 25, 2024
Cell & Molecular Biology
The significance of the human gut microbiome, a vast community of microbes in the gastrointestinal tract, has been known
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
NOV 12, 2024
Earth & The Environment
The eruption of Mount St. Helens in 1980 scattered roughly 540 million tons of ash over an area of more than 22,000 squa
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
OCT 09, 2024
Cell & Molecular Biology
Endosymbiotic organisms have to live inside of another to survive, and this relationship often provides benefits for bot
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
AUG 04, 2024
Microbiology
Zoonotic diseases jump species to infect humans, and scientists have been studying the links in this transmission netwro
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JUL 08, 2024
Microbiology
Pseudomonas aeruginosa is a bacterium that can be found throughout the environment. It can also cause deadly, multidrug-
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JUL 02, 2024
Microbiology
Single-celled organisms have managed to make a home almost everywhere, including inside the many animals' guts and in ne
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JUL 01, 2024
Cell & Molecular Biology
Many studies have highlighted the importance of getting enough fiber like fruits, vegetables, and whole grains in our di
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JUN 12, 2024
Microbiology
In the late 1970s, a new branch was added to the tree of life, and archaea joined bacteria and eukarya, as domain classi
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
MAY 29, 2024
Earth & The Environment
The climate is changing, and the average temperature of the planet continues to get warmer. Parts of 2023 were about 1.5
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
MAY 03, 2024
Microbiology
Archaea are a relatively recently discovered group of microorganisms that occupy their own branch on the tree of life. T
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
APR 12, 2024
Cell & Molecular Biology
Bacteria are only the only organisms that are able to 'fix' nitrogen, or remove it from the atmosphere and convert it in
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
FEB 26, 2024
Microbiology
Some soils in Iceland like those in this image are heated naturally, giving scientists like Dr Christina Kaiser a chance
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
FEB 16, 2024
Microbiology
Organic life on earth dies, and when that happens, it must decompose. Most decomposing organic material on Earth is dead
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JAN 23, 2024
Neuroscience
Insights into how psychological stress disrupts intestinal stem cell function.
Written By:
Amielle Moreno