Alarming trends show that colon—or bowel—cancer is increasing in younger people. If the rise continues, colorectal cancer is ...

Researchers have dubbed it Ca.Electrothrix yaqonensis. That’s in honor of the Yaqona tribal people, whose descendants are now ...

Scientists know relatively little about archaea compared to their bacterial counterparts, but evidence of their roles in ...

In today’s Health Alert, tick season is back and so is the threat of Lyme disease. But, there is good news on the medical ...

Some things just go together in your belly: peanut butter and jelly, salt and pepper, bacteria and bacteria-eating viruses.

Scientists have long known that bacteriophages, viruses that infect bacteria, live in our gut, but exactly what they do has ...

Scientists at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem have uncovered a surprising way in which harmful bacteria prepare to attack ...

Israeli scientists have identified a critical mechanism bacteria use to activate disease-causing genes, offering new ...

This finding opens the door to broader research into how many different pathogens regulate their harmful activities.

Dr. Amber Hartman Scholz, Head of the Department of Science Policy and Internationalization at the Leibniz Institute ...

New research published in Nature reveals that age-related changes in the gut promote the growth of pre-leukemic blood cells.

Scientists have a new clue in the mystery of why younger people are getting more colon cancer. It may have to do with a toxin ...