Human history was forever changed with the discovery of antibiotics in 1928. Infectious diseases such as pneumonia, ...

A new study conducted by researchers from UC San Diego explored how exposure to a specific bacteria in childhood could be ...

A consortium of researchers with multidisciplinary skills, coordinated by INRAE and including the CNRS, the Université ...

From the brightly colored golden poison dart frog that secretes a lethal neurotoxin to the Cookie Monster-lookalike fish that ...

Researchers don’t know for sure. But a study recently published in Nature points to one possibility: childhood exposure to a bacterial toxin called colibactin. The toxin is known to damage DNA ...

What Is Toxic Shock Syndrome? Toxic shock syndrome (TSS) is a sudden, potentially deadly condition caused when an overgrowth of bacteria releases toxins into your bloodstream. Tampons can cause ...

It contains E. coli, antibiotic-resistant bacteria, arsenic and other toxic chemicals," San Diego County Supervisor Jim Desmond explained in a recent Fox News op-ed. "Our water is contaminated.

Turns out there’s a lot more than sewage polluting our rivers, oceans and air, according to scientists who study the ...

Cases of group A streptococcus (GAS) have been on the rise in the past decade. The bacteria can cause a range of diseases ...