There's been a surge of melioidosis cases this year. Here's everything you need to know about the disease, what's causing it ...

A nationwide recall of frozen nutritional shakes has been issued after a listeria outbreak tied to the drinks resulted in ...

To keep infections at bay, it's crucial to maintain proper pool hygiene, including optimal disinfection levels.

For biochemists, it's the which-came-first question: oxygen production by photosynthesis or oxygen consumption by aerobic ...

Buruli ulcer is a tropical disease caused by the environmental bacterium Mycobacterium ulcerans. The bacteria releases toxins ...

Researchers have identified a new mechanism by which a key bacterium in periodontitis evades the immune system.

Researchers have identified a new mechanism by which a key bacterium in periodontitis evades the immune system. The study ...

New research suggests that plague was present in the Middle East nearly a century before the Black Death. A new study ...

Building a gene editor took months. With CRISPR even high-schoolers can get hold of editing systems in the time it takes to ...

Bacteria get up to all sorts of strange things. As a result, they’ve evolved to produce an extensive range of small molecules ...

There’s an epidemic of tick-transmitted Lyme disease, with possibly 476,000 people a year diagnosed and treated in the U.S.

In a recent publication in Cell, researchers from the National University of Singapore and collaborators have proposed using commensal bacteria in the nasal cavity as a delivery vector for precision ...