Healthy soil teems with bacteria, fungi, viruses and other microorganisms that help store carbon and fend off plant diseases. To restore soil, scientists are finding ways to foster its microbiome.
4000 km wide view of Mars’ (colour-coded topgraphy) Coprates Chasma.
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The volcanoes would be a great place t to search for fossilised microbes.
Drug-resistant strains of gonorrhoea, once easily dispatched with penicillin, are spreading across the globe resulting in chronic pain and sterility.
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Without leading edge innovations and coordination, Canadians will die from the epidemic of antibiotic resistant infections.
Just as organisms that infect us make changes in us - we too make changes in them and they grow and adapt to their human hosts.
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Humans play host to many little passengers. Right now, you’re incubating, shedding or have already been colonised by viral, bacterial, parasitic or fungal microorganisms - perhaps even all of them.
Trillions of microorganisms live inside your gut.
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Trillions of microorganisms living inside your digestive system may influence your health and even your weight. Here’s how your gut may communicate with your brain, bone marrow and immune system.
Modern diets are changing the compositions of our gut microbiota, and with that, our personalities.
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For most of the twentieth century, we were at war with microbes, leading to substantial changes in our body’s ecosystem. This has changed our diets, disease profile, moods and even personalities.
Those keypads are teeming with microbes.
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What’s on your cash? Studies show our money carries everything from pet DNA and old food to E.coli and traces of cocaine.
Open wide … the mouths of crocodiles like this contain bacteria that cause potentially lethal infections in people they bite.
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The impact of plant disease may be reduced if people are made aware of the many pathways for plant-killing microbes – and why preventing their spread matters to us all.
Tubular fossils believed to represent early microbes.
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Researchers are developing biological tools that can boost crop yields to feed a growing world population without harming human health or the environment.
According to the World Health Organisation, antimicrobial resistance is now at crisis point.
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The US Centers for Disease Control has reported a woman in her 70s has died of overwhelming sepsis caused by a bacterium that was resistant to all available antibiotics.
In us, on us and all around us.
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ESA’s second mission to Mars has become prey to the curse of the Red Planet – although the orbiter is heading for success, the Schiaparelli lander seems to have disappeared.
Ion microscope image of ancient (probably fungal) structures in rock.
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