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 ...

Gastrointestinal surgeon Dr Karan Rajan shared his five red flag signs a supplement may not deliver what it claims to - and ...

Biomedical engineers at Duke University have demonstrated a new synthetic approach that turbocharges bacteria into producing ...

Phages are viruses that attack bacteria by injecting their DNA, then usurping bacterial machinery to reproduce. Eventually, ...

Meet the jumbo phage. Scientists believe they’ve cracked the code on how its ‘secret handshakes’ act as a shield against the ...

A small study finds that a juicing-only diet can cause potentially harmful changes to our gut and mouth bacteria in as little ...

Tempeh is another fermented soybean food, but unlike miso, it comes in solid form. Fermentation of tempeh promotes the growth ...

Microbes that reside peaceably in the nasal passageways and on the skin can be harnessed for taking drugs to target cells.

By employing a novel technique to examine how carbohydrates modify proteins, scientists have found that gut bacteria can ...

Using a new method to study how carbohydrates modify proteins, scientists have discovered that gut bacteria can alter molecular signatures in the brain.