The world is full of microorganisms, many of which are still a complete mystery to us. Scientists have been working to learn ...

A Rutgers Health study has found that people who took multiple courses of penicillin antibiotics had a modestly lower risk of ...

Oct. 17, 2024 — Researchers have cracked the code of plant-to-fungi communication in a new study. Using baker's yeast, the researchers discovered that the plant hormone strigolactone (SL ...

While no candy is truly healthy, some options are better for your gut than others. And there are ways you can help wake your ...

Dried cells—it’s what’s for dinner. At least that’s what a new crop of biotech startups, armed with carbon-guzzling bacteria ...

A group of bacteria has proved adept at destroying the ultratough carbon-fluorine bonds that give “forever chemicals” their name. This finding boosts hopes that microbes might someday help ...

A group of McMaster researchers who routinely work with bacteriophages—viruses that eat bacteria—had a pleasant and ...

Wastewater treatment plants could soon do more than just purify water — they could become hubs of industrial innovation.

Commercial potting soils are typically sterilized, which eradicates those useful microbes. To overcome that issue, add compost—but not so much that it compacts the soil. Thorne mixes Mycorrhizal ...

New method cultures antitumor bacteria and enhances anticancer properties by using highly porous scaffolds of bacteria.

Thirteen people dead from infections caused by rare flesh-eating bacteria. These are the figures released by health ...