The blobfish, once considered the ugliest animal in the world, has since had quite the redemption arc. Years after it was ...

Bacteria block the immune system with lactic acid and cause infections to become chronic, revealing why some wounds don't ...

Researchers have created the first living synthetic bacterium made from non-living parts by killing a bacterial cell and then ...

Researchers at Emory University have found that live gut bacteria can travel to the brain in mice fed a high-fat diet, a ...

While the best way to a man’s heart may be through his stomach, a better way to treat colon cancer may one day be through the gut as well. Brian Sheridan, Associate Professor in the Department of ...

Scientists have engineered probiotic bacteria to act as tumor-seeking drug factories. In mice, these bacteria infiltrated ...

Researchers at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign have built a computer simulation that tracks the entire life cycle ...

When bacteria cells replicate, they do so a little differently than human cells do. They don't undergo mitosis, a splitting ...

In its purest form (with no extra debris), liquid water can exist as a liquid until -40°C if left still (unmoving). In order ...

Hospital wastewater is difficult to clean because it often carries two very different threats at once: chemical dye residues and harmful bacteria. Researchers have now developed a polyurethane ...

Researchers from King's College London and the University of Surrey have developed a new technique to measure the content of ...