Scientists have found that consuming yogurt regularly may lower the risk of a specific type of colorectal cancer. The study ...

A tool that screens for molecules that may have therapeutic value against drug-resistant bacteria has been released for free ...

Considerably more work will be needed before these bacteria can be used in people. Creative approaches tend to draw attention from researchers and the public alike, but the field still needs to ...

When Spain-based immunologist Irene Salinas, from the University of New Mexico in the United States, began searching for bacteria in the brains of healthy fish, it might have seemed like a futile task ...

From the smallest of tips used to draw solutions to pipettes ... Some of them work on bacteria that can chew up plastics; others work directly with enzymes that can clean up the waste.

Accumulated evidence has revealed that CLE peptides mediate trans-kingdom interactions between plants and microbes, including pathogens and symbionts. This review highlights the emerging roles of CLE ...

For the isolation of crude oil degrading bacteria, 1 g of soil sample was inoculated into 100 mL of mineral salt medium (MSM pH 6.8 ± 0.2) supplemented with 1% crude oil 9 and incubated at room ...

A Japanese study led by Hiroshi Ohno links specific gut bacteria present in newborns to food sensitivities and allergies. Published in the Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, the research ...

Whether a detected virus or bacteria is a pathogen that may require treatment ... Broad confidence intervals for the positive etiologic predictive value made it difficult to draw conclusions for ...

In the quest to take the “forever” out of “forever chemicals,” bacteria might be our ally. Most remediation of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) involves adsorbing and trapping them, but ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Far from being solo operators, most single-celled microbes are in complex relationships. In the ocean, the soil, and your gut ...