The human oral microbiota is highly diverse and has a complex ecology, comprising
bacteria, microeukaryotes, archaea and viruses. These communities have elaborate and …

Despite the surge of microbial genome data, experimental testing is important to confirm
inferences about the cell biology, ecological roles and evolution of microorganisms. As the …

Microbiology has been largely developed thanks to the discovery and optimization of culture
media. The first liquid artificial culture medium was created by Louis Pasteur in 1860 …

A recent paper by Martiny argues that “high proportions” of bacteria in diverse Earth
environments have been cultured. Here we reanalyze a portion of the data in that paper, and …

Potentially beneficial microorganisms have been inoculated into agricultural soils for years.
However, concurrent with sequencing advances and successful manipulation of host …

Gut microbes are considered as major factors contributing to human health. Nowadays, the
vast majority of the data available in the literature are mostly exhibiting negative or positive …

Microbial ecology as a scientific field is fundamentally driven by technological advance. The
past decade's revolution in DNA sequencing cost and throughput has made it possible for …

Reactive oxygen species (ROS) are omnipresent in the ocean, originating from both
biological (eg, unbalanced metabolism or stress) and non-biological processes (eg …

BACKGROUND Recent studies have revealed that the blood of healthy humans is not as
sterile as previously supposed. The objective of this study was to provide a comprehensive …

Blood in healthy organisms is seen as a 'sterile'environment: it lacks proliferating microbes.
Dormant or not-immediately-culturable forms are not absent, however, as intracellular …