The vagus nerve is an indispensable body-brain connection that controls vital aspects of
autonomic physiology like breathing, heart rate, blood pressure, and gut motility, reflexes …

Antibiotic resistance and its wider implications present us with a growing healthcare crisis.
Recent research points to the environment as an important component for the transmission …

Understanding the present and future distribution of soil-borne plant pathogens is critical to
supporting food and fibre production in a warmer world. Using data from a global field …

Despite having key functions in terrestrial ecosystems, information on the dominant soil fungi
and their ecological preferences at the global scale is lacking. To fill this knowledge gap, we …

The structure and function of the soil microbiome of urban greenspaces remain largely
undetermined. We conducted a global field survey in urban greenspaces and neighboring …

Asthma prevalence has increased in epidemic proportions with urbanization, but growing up
on traditional farms offers protection even today. The asthma-protective effect of farms …

Humans have relied on sourdough starter microbial communities to make leavened bread
for thousands of years, but only a small fraction of global sourdough biodiversity has been …

Microbial entities (such bacteria, fungi, archaea and viruses) within outdoor aerosols have
been scarcely studied compared with indoor aerosols and nonbiological components, and …

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

Recent pandemic outbreak of the corona-virus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has raised
widespread concerns about the importance of the bioaerosols. They are atmospheric …