New strains of Typhoid that can resist the strongest available antibiotics have emerged in South Asia, raising concerns over the potential spread of drug-resistant infections.

Scientists at the Keio University School of Medicine in Tokyo and the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard say they have isolated eighteen bacterial strains from stool from healthy people that could ...

In the ultra-sterile cleanrooms where NASA assembles spacecraft bound for other worlds, scientists have uncovered 12 ...

A groundbreaking study led by the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa’s Hawaiʻi Institute of Marine Biology revealed critical new ...

Rapid advances in computational and genetic tools have allowed researchers to delve into the mystery that is the human gut microbiome. There are trillions of microbes in the human gastrointestinal ...

New study reveals that bacteria can survive antibiotic treatment through two fundamentally different "shutdown modes," not ...

NOT OFFICIAL. OKAY, OKAY. FIVE ON YOUR HEALTH, A NEW STRAIN OF BACTERIA IS CAUSING CONCERN AS EVERYONE HEADS BACK OUTDOORS. IT WAS DISCOVERED IN RABBIT TICKS IN A BACKYARD IN MAINE, AND RESEARCHERS AT ...

An international team of scientists reports that it has unraveled the genetic makeup of 47 strains of known and potential Lyme disease-causing bacteria. The say the work paves the way toward more ...

Gut bacteria rapidly adapt to processed food additives, revealing how modern diets can reshape microbial evolution worldwide.

Rather than yeast or microalgae, the company is working with oleaginous bacteria—which it claims are more productive.