Biologists from the University of California San Diego and elsewhere have found that biofilm cells are organized in elaborate patterns, a feature previously...
The discovery of antibiotics more than 80 years ago has led to considerable improvements in human and animal health. Although antibiotic resistance in...
New research by scientists from Seoul National University, Korea Food Research Institute and Chungnam National University suggests that dark chocolate...
Extreme warming at the end of the Permian period induced profound changes in marine biogeochemical cycling and animal habitability, leading to the largest...
A team of materials scientists from RMIT University and CSIRO has designed and fabricated a micro-nano copper structure and demonstrated its exceptional...
A team of scientists from Jiangnan University, Queen Mary University of London and the University of Oulu has identified a causal link between an increased...
Consuming grapes significantly increases the diversity of gut bacteria, decreases cholesterol levels as well as bile acids which play an integral role...
Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus pseudintermedius (MRSP) is an important emerging zoonotic pathogen that causes severe skin infections. In new research,...
Using a new gene-analyzing technique, researchers from MIT and elsewhere have found that all extant species of cyanobacteria can be traced back to a common...
Interactions between Brassica vegetables, such as cabbage, Brussels sprouts, broccoli, and cauliflower, and human saliva can affect in-mouth odor development,...
Fasting before and during exposure to invasive food-borne bacteria protects mice from developing a full-blown gastrointestinal infection, in part through...
Microbiologists at the Ohio State University have found that the ancient bacteria and their phages (bacteria-infecting viruses) from Tibetan glacier ice...
A new study in mice shows that normally, the immune system keeps potentially pathogenic fungi such as Candida albicans in check, targeting them when they...
Commensal bacteria are found throughout an organism, but it is not known whether associations between gut bacteria and their host are heritable. In a new...
Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) is one of the most serious infectious disease concerns worldwide. In 2019, the Centers for Disease Control...
A team of microbiologists from Cornell University has isolated five new non-pathogenic species of Listeria soil samples from an agricultural water sample...
Paneth cells, immune cells in the gastrointestinal epithelia, modulate innate immunity and infection. In Crohn’s disease, genetic mutations together...
An international team of researchers from Germany and Canada has investigated whether bacteria could be detected in prenatal stool (meconium) samples.
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A team of biologists from the United States, Canada, Panama and Taiwan has isolated a new species of cyanobacteria from a tropical hornwort plant found...
The oral microbiome plays key roles in human biology, health, and disease, but little is known about the global diversity, variation, or evolution of this...
