STRAINS of a common bug have been linked to increasing cases of bowel cancer and other forms of the disease in the UK, ...

Imagine a world in which a vaccine is a cream you rub onto your skin instead of a needle a health care worker pushes into one ...

Scientists have sounded a warning about the alarming rise of “extremely pathogenic” multi-drug resistant bacteria in war-torn ...

Scientists at the University of Cambridge assessed nearly 10,000 DNA samples infected by the bacterium from around the world to construct a “family tree” of the bug and found that just 21 ...

It worked: when the researchers introduced bugs that walked only about one sixth ... He works mostly with Wolbachia, a genus of bacteria that commonly parasitize crop pests. One of his strategies ...

“It is a completely new class of broad-spectrum antibiotic that will kill all bacteria, including super-bugs. Even when bacteria attempt to mutate, the antibiotic continues to work,” said VP ...

The so-called "cyborg" bugs produce acetic acid, a chemical that can then be turned into fuel and plastic. In lab experiments, the bacteria proved much more efficient at harvesting sunlight than ...

Your home is filled with thousands of species of bug, bacteria, fungus. And while you might assume most live in your bathroom, the dirtiest place in your home isn't your toilet. It's your own body.