Clothes and fishing nets that are made of nylon often end up in landfill or dumped in oceans, but a new way to break down the ...

In this one, the researchers discovered that coffee drinking correlated with an increase in several bacterial species, but ...

AIST researchers, in collaboration with JAMSTEC, Hokkaido University and Tohoku University, have succeeded in cultivating an ...

Toxic ‘forever chemicals’ are increasingly showing up in the environment, our food and drinking water, and throughout our ...

Nanotube bridge networks grow between the most abundant photosynthetic bacteria in the oceans, suggesting that the world is ...

AIST researchers, in collaboration with JAMSTEC, Hokkaido University and Tohoku University, have succeeded in cultivating an ...

Harvard researchers have found that M. morganii may contribute to depression by producing an inflammatory molecule.

Scientists at Stanford are developing a painless, topical vaccine using a common skin bacterium to trigger immunity.

Bacteria in the gut have been implicated in autoimmune diseases, like lupus, that don't primarily affect the gastrointestinal ...

Strep throat, something we've all had at some point in our lives, is caused by the bacteria Streptococcus pyogenes. Infection ...

Rapidly spreading, harrowing and potentially lethal, a necrotizing soft tissue infection — so-called flesh-eating disease — ...