New research shows how surface material and temperature change how long viruses survive and whether they can still spread.

Two recent studies from the University of California, Riverside, published in the same issue of Gut Microbes highlight the role of a gene called PTPN2 in protecting the gut from harmful bacteria ...

Normally, PTPN2 helps maintain gut health by controlling inflammation and supporting a balanced gut microbiome. However, some ...

More than 3.5 billion years ago, the Earth was not the hospitable world we know today. The atmosphere lacked oxygen, the seas ...

Download the Nature Briefing Podcast 23 January 2026. In this episode: 00:24 How babies share their gut microbes. Nature: ...

Scientists may have found a new way to spot early signs of obesity, which could lead to novel prevention strategies. A study ...

People have long said that "bread is life." Now, researchers at Tufts University are using the bubbling mixtures of flour and ...

A six-year analysis of marine microbes in coastal California waters has overturned long-held assumptions about how the ...

Antibiotics transformed medicine in the 20th century, but relying on them alone won’t carry humanity through the 21st. The pipeline of new antibiotics remains distressingly thin, and most drugs ...

The last thing you want to do after finishing laundry is do the whole thing over again. Yet, when you leave a load in the ...

That’s only one problem. Your immune system also has an adaptive system of specialized immune cells and antibodies that attack and destroy invading microbes. This system remembers what those intruders ...

Scientists have discovered 13 new bacteria species in unique foods and environments that could transform health and the environment.