Micro-organisms constitute a very antique group of living organisms which appeared on the Earth’s surface almost 3000 million years ago. The questions arising from the study of the origin and ...

Today, MALDI-ToF MS is an established technique to characterize and identify pathogenic bacteria. The technique is increasingly applied by clinical microbiological laboratories that use commercially ...

Without the need to cultivate specific strains, metagenomics has emerged as a popular technique for studying microbial communities. Furthermore, the 16 S ribosomal RNA (16 S rRNA) gene is a useful ...

Conservation biologists propose a daunting task: protecting Earth’s diversity of bacteria and other microbes. By Carl Zimmer Hundreds of scientists have joined together to save a group of species from ...

Flesh-eating” bacteria is spreading. Infectious fungi are emerging. Microbiomes may never be the same. Are we ready?