Healthcare workers' uniforms washed at home might be bringing dangerous bacteria back to hospitals, creating a breeding ...

Researchers have developed the Human Intestinal Bacteria Collection (HiBC), comprising 340 gut bacterial strains from 198 ...

A nurse whose father died after being given infected blood has said he would have been “disgusted” at the way bereaved families have been treated in the wake of the scandal. Louise Huitson said her ...

Researchers at Umeå University, Sweden, and Michigan State University, U.S., have discovered a type of molecule that can kill chlamydia bacteria, but spare bacteria that are important for health.

Worldwide, more than 500,000 children under age 5 die each year from gastrointestinal bacterial infections, largely in communities with limited access to safe drinking water, sanitation and ...

Talk about a dirty little secret. One everyday appliance — a staple of domestic hygiene — may actually be harboring microscopic nasties that no amount of disinfectant can scrub away.

“A lot of people don’t realize there’s always bacteria in the ocean,” Ahlbrand said. “So when they see us testing, they kind of freak out.” But the bacteria turning up in her samples ...

Ancient oxygen-making microbes may have oxygenated large swaths of Earth’s seafloor hundreds of millions of years before the element filled the atmosphere. Geochemical analysis of sediments ...

Microbiology is the study of microscopic organisms, such as bacteria, viruses, archaea, fungi and protozoa. This discipline includes fundamental research on the biochemistry, physiology ...

A recent project reveals that small mammals in parts of Borneo’s rainforest are not just adjusting to human-altered landscapes; they may also be exchanging gut bacteria. Alessandra Giacomini of ...

MOE Key Laboratory of Bioinformatics, Center for Synthetic and Systematic Biology, School of Life Sciences, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China MOE Key Laboratory of Bioinformatics, Center for ...

May 8, 2025 — AI model EVE-Vax provides clues about how a virus may evolve and the immune response it could ... Evaluating the Safety and Efficacy of a Smallpox Vaccine for Preventing Mpox May 8 ...