The Florida Department of Health (FDOH) announced one person in Hillsborough County has died from a flesh-eating bacteria called "Vibrio vulnificus." ...

The No. 1 "bacteria hot spot" in the report is the beach of Kahalu'u in Oahu, Hawaii, with a 92 percent high bacteria rate.

Doctors were able to resuscitate him. Then, they got to work trying to figure out what was wrong. The man told them that for ...

What triggers type 1 diabetes has been difficult to prove, but a bacterium that produces an insulin-like peptide can give mice type 1 diabetes, and infection with the microbe seems to predict the ...

A bacterium likely to reduce the cardiovascular risks of 1 in 2 people Date: July 1, 2019 Source: Université catholique de Louvain Summary: Scientists conducted the first pilot study in humans to ...

A new study by University of Bath scientists has highlighted two new potential families of drug molecules that could open the ...

Bacteria are the most abundant form of life on Earth. The ocean is highly abundant with small particles and debris, some inert, some highly nutritious. But researchers want to know how bacteria ...

Genomic research of Fusobacterium nucleatum isolated from colon cancer tumors may help researchers develop future screening tests and cancer vaccines ...

NDM-1 is a protein that certain bacteria produce. It makes them resistant to antibiotics, posing the potential threat of a superbug. While this poses a considerable threat to health, some ...