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 ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Prochlorococcus bacteria are so small that you’d have to line up around a thousand of them to match the thickness of a human ...

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.

But what about a virus that doesn’t make people sick — just the bacteria that infects people, effectively destroying it? That’s what bacteriophages — or, simply, phages — are ...

Five days after take off, astronaut Luca Parmitano unpacked microbe-laden cartridges and installed them in an incubator. The bacteria were given liquid growth media plus Icelandic basalt ...

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 ...

while others found lower amounts of the same bacteria. These mixed results made it difficult to draw clear conclusions. More importantly, the study found that OSCC does more than just change the ...

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 ...

Among other goals, they'll be collecting surface samples from the station to analyze for the presence of microbes. The ISS "surface swab" is part of the ISS External Microorganisms project. It was ...