There's something make-believe, almost Pokémon-like in a new species of bacteria found living on a mud flat in Oregon.

A biomedical engineer at the University of Michigan has found that just a fraction of all known bacteria species has ever ...

The composition of bacterial populations living on our faces plays a significant role in the development of acne and other skin conditions such as eczema. Two species of bacteria predominate in ...

Scientists have discovered a previously unknown strain of microbe after analyzing samples taken from China's Tiangong space ...

New Stanford research has discovered that the gut of the average Bay Area resident has only half as many species of bacteria as hunter-gatherers in remote northern Tanzania, a decline attributed ...

Most biofilms are composed of multiple bacterial species, but how these species manage to live together is unclear. A new study by Dartmouth scientists in Current Biology uses experiments and ...

The researchers used data to investigate natural divisions in bacteria with a goal of determining a viable method for organizing them into species and strains. A photo of the saltern site in Spain ...

A man developed an "extensive" infection that caused his hands to swell after being bitten by a stray cat that was carrying an unknown species of bacteria, a new case report reveals. The 48-year ...

A species of bacteria that lived 407 million years ago would have flourished among early land plants. Detailed 3D reconstructions of fossils discovered in Scotland are helping scientists to understand ...

Pandora Dewan is a Senior Science Reporter at Newsweek based in London, UK. Her focus is reporting on science, health and technology. Pandora joined Newsweek in 2022 and previously worked as the ...

This upended decades of medical belief and treatment. Could a newly discovered species of bacteria in the microbiome be a culprit behind rheumatoid arthritis? This reprint from The Conversation ...

We developed a novel set of peptide nucleic acid (PNA)-based FISH probes with optimal target specificity by analyzing the variations in 16S ribosomal RNA sequence across all bacterial species." ...