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Ötzi the Iceman, Europe’s most famous mummy, is crawling with microbes, some long dead, some still eking out a living after thousands of years, and some very modern.

(Kateryna Kon/Science Photo Library/Getty Images) A technique commonly used to prevent cancer might not be as effective as we ...

New research suggests bacteria inside marine fish guts may help produce calcium carbonate, a mineral important to ocean ...

Scientists have discovered that two common human pathogens can work together by managing copper in their shared environment—a ...

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A large study finds you may share about a quarter of your oral and gut microbes with the people you live with. Should you worry? We asked the experts.

A new study finds that people who live together share far more mouth and gut microbes than those living apart.

Amid the peatlands of northern Sweden, billions of microbes are quietly rewriting their genetic playbooks—and doing so far more often than scientists realized.