Researchers have developed a method to extract living cells from feces that they say could help conservationists better ...

New research reveals alarming findings about hospital bacteria transmission linked to hidden surfaces and workers' hands.

Archaea—one of the three primary domains of life alongside bacteria and eukaryotes—are often overlooked and sometimes ...

A comprehensive review explores how gut microbiota diversity and fitness influence Alzheimer’s disease (AD) risk through ...

Urbanization reshapes soil microbes in surprising ways—bacteria adapt and become alike, while fungi resist change.

Humans have come a long way as the most dominant species on Earth, largely due to sophisticated adaptations, ingenuity, and ...

A drug-resistant type of bacteria that has adapted to health care settings evolved in the past several years to weaponize an antimicrobial genetic ... that decrease the diversity of bacteria ...

The Enhanced Detection System for Health Care-Associated Transmission (EDS-HAT) analyzes the genetic signatures ... antibiotics that decrease the diversity of bacteria in their microbiomes ...

Southwestern Sydney's koalas have avoided the chlamydia outbreak threatening the entire species. But their isolation has left them extremely inbred.