16-06-01 Many animals depend on their microbiome to digest their food. Symbiotic microorganisms produce enzymes their hosts cannot, and these work alone or together with the animals own enzymes to break down their food. Many plant-feeding insects need microb...

15-06-23 The gut microbe Akkermansia muciniphila may hold the key to better metabolic health and healthier body fat distribution in people who are overweight or obese, reveals a small study published online in the journal Gut. The microbe seems to be linked...

14-04-25 The smallest, most abundant marine microbe, Prochlorococcus, is a photosynthetic bacteria species essential to the marine ecosystem. An estimated billion billion billion of the single-cell creatures live in the oceans, forming the base of the marine...

13-11-26 Scientists have charted a significant signaling network in a tiny organism that's big in the world of biofuels research. The findings about how a remarkably fast-growing organism conducts its metabolic business bolster（支持） scientists' ability to...

10-08-20 A University of Illinois metabolic（变化的，新陈代谢的） engineer has taken the first step toward the more efficient and economical production of biofuels by developing a strain of yeast（酵母，泡沫） with increased alcohol tolerance. Biofuels are p...

10-02-01 One-third of samples of milk and dairy products乳制品 analysed in various restaurants exceed the microbe细菌，微生物 contamination污染，玷污 limits set by the European Union, according to a study carried out by researchers from the University of Val...