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They may be more familiar as a room scent but a new study being presented at the Letters in Applied Microbiology ECS Research Symposium 2025 reveals that lavender and lemongrass essential oils are effective against thrush, even at low levels.

Combining a bacterial isolate with rhizobia can boost soybean production without disrupting the natural soil microbiome, a new study reveals.

Researchers and students from the University of Milano-Bicocca - including AMI student member Giulia Ghisleni - teamed up for an ambitious citizen science project, collecting more than 2,400 samples of the urban microbiome over four seasons.

A new study by scientists at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory and several institutes across India and Saudi Arabia - including AMI Global Ambassador Professor Alexandre Rosado - has reported 26 novel bacterial species growing inside cleanrooms associated with NASA space missions.

A new study, published in Sustainable Microbiology, delves into how the age and size of microplastics affects the growth of harmful algal blooms. 

A study by AMI member Dr Gerry Quinn highlights the potential of spiritual healing sites as fertile ground for novel antibiotics, particularly from Streptomyces bacteria, known for producing the majority of current antibiotics.

The Trump adminstration has signed an Executive Order halting federal gain of function research on microbes - but does it throw the baby out with the bathwater? Virologist Simon Wain-Hobson, Emeritus Professor with the Pasteur Institute, Paris, gives his take.

Peptide-based therapies offer the potential to transform how we treat a range of conditions - but have yet to be adopted for widespread clinical use. A new review uncovers the barriers to adoption and identifies ways to overcome these limitations.

Researchers have pioneered a microbially driven process that utilises low-value waste products, such as magnesium mine waste and sulfur from desulfurisation plants, to leach the wastes and generate a stream of solubilised magnesium.

Researchers discover unprecedented pollution-fighting genetic adaptations in tiny organisms inhabiting Brooklyn’s highly contaminated Gowanus Canal, revealing a potential new approach for cleaning contaminated waters and recovering valuable resources.