The gut bacterium Bacteroides fragilis has long presented researchers with a paradox. It has been associated with colorectal cancer, yet it also lives quite happily in most healthy people. A study by ...

The research, published in Science Advances, brought together scientists from Otago and the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology. The team closely examined the molecular structure of Bas63, a ...

Scientists have created a genomic blueprint for Aeromonas bacteria, which can cause antibiotic-resistant diarrheal disease—with symptoms often misidentified as cholera—in humans and animals.

What is soap actually doing when you shower? Style Theory brings in Stephanie to answer that question with genuine chemistry, covering the dual function that most hygiene education ignores: soap ...

Blow up a long balloon and two things happen: it gets longer and it gets wider. Now imagine a living cell that inflates itself under enormous pressure and yet only grows longer, never adding width.

Scientists at Arizona State University have uncovered surprising new ways bacteria move, even without their usual whip-like propellers called flagella. In one study, E. coli and salmonella were found ...

A new University of California San Diego study published in Cell challenges a long-standing assumption about how animal ...

Primary care providers routinely evaluate a wide range of skin conditions during everyday appointments”— Chad Carrone ...

By simulating the life cycle of a minimal bacterial cell—from DNA replication to protein translation to metabolism and cell division—scientists have opened a new frontier of computer vision into the ...

"Extremophile" bacteria could survive asteroid impacts that are strong enough to launch them into space, suggesting that life ...