As the threat of antibiotic resistance grows, a Swansea University academic has led the development of a novel technology ...

This technique, called “experimental evolution”, permitted the phages to adapt to bacterial defenses. This resulted in significant improvements to their ability to kill a wide variety of bacterial ...

In natural environments, bacteria rarely live as free-swimming cells but are attached to surfaces as biofilms in medical ...

Unexpected deposits of bacteria have been found inside brain tumors, apparently affecting how the cancers grow and behave, a ...

The market for at-home gut microbiome tests is booming, with companies promising insights into health, chronic illness and ...

Deep beneath the ocean, scientists uncovered thriving microbial life in one of Earth’s harshest environments—an area with a ...

A healthy 52-year-old woman died after developing a pyopneumothorax, a collection of pus and air between the lung and the chest wall, caused by a typically benign mouth bacterium. The case report was ...

ASU scientists found that people whose gut microbes make more methane extract more calories from fiber-rich foods. Methanogens help the microbiome turn fiber into energy by consuming hydrogen and ...

Remarkable changes are taking place in Greenland these years, according to new research. As a result, Greenland is increasingly subjected to twisting, pressure, and tension. Remarkable changes are ...

With so many coral reefs bleaching and pangolins being poached, it may seem tone-deaf to call for the conservation of species that are too small to see with the naked eye. But that’s exactly what the ...