Among the more than 500 species of bacteria that thrive in the human mouth, one seems to play by its own rules. This video shows one Corynebacterium matruchotii bacterium dividing into many ...

Oct. 17, 2024 — A new vaccine provides hope for treating and even preventing the highly contagious and difficult-to-treat Clostridioides difficile infection, more commonly known as C. difficile ...

Scientists wielding a minute hollow needle — and a bike pump — have managed to implant bacteria into a larger cell, creating a relationship that might have helped to spark the evolution of ...

What you eat isn't just nutrition for you, it also feeds the trillions of bacteria that live in your gut. Every person is different, but if you want to improve your digestion, lose weight or look ...

Scientists discovered that bacteria commonly found in wastewater can break down plastic to turn it into a food source, a ...

Having healthy, diverse bacteria in your gut is linked to many health benefits, including improving immune function, and lower incidence of heart disease, diabetes, asthma, depression, irritable ...

Examining a collection of K. pneumoniae bacteria with mutated versions of genes, the authors identified genes involved in carbohydrate metabolism that markedly reduced K. pneumoniae survival in ...

The air in your home could be making you sick – here’s how to improve it - How often do you think about the air pollution in ...

VALENCIA, Sept 27 (Reuters) - As Spanish microbiologist Pilar Bosch was casting around for a subject to investigate for her PhD in 2008, she stumbled across a paper suggesting that bacteria ...

Wastewater bacteria can breakdown plastic for food Finding could lead to bioengineering solutions to clean up plastic waste Date: October 4, 2024 Source: Northwestern University Summary ...

Bacteria that thrive in people’s mouths could increase the risk of head and neck cancers, new research shows. Head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (HNSCC), which develop in the mouth, nose, and ...

The maternity hospital was due to open by the end of 2015 Bacteria that can cause a number of infections was discovered at a new maternity hospital weeks after it was officially handed over to the ...