Estrela’s research focuses on microbial interactions, specifically, the way nutrients can impact bacterial communities.

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Discover how India’s rich ecosystems are inspiring groundbreaking solutions in sustainable agriculture worldwide.

Some microbes happily thrive in unforgiving environments. An extremophile hunt is underway to leverage their resilience ...

Researchers used a novel tool this year that successfully creates a map of the “pesticide-gut microbiota-metabolite network," ...