A new study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA shows that conglomerations of fungi and bacteria can work together to “walk” and “leap” across the surface ...

These bacteria have a natural endosymbiotic relationship with some strains of this fungi, but the researchers used a strain that does not have that natural connection. After the bacteria entered the ...

Examples of fermented foods include the ... teeming with trillions of bacteria, viruses and fungi that play a crucial role in your health. Whether the beneficial microbes in your gut are ...

Venom isn’t just a feature of some animals; it’s found across the living world, from plants and fungi to bacteria and viruses ... definitions of venom and examples of non-animals that ...

Indoor gardening — growing, repotting, or even harvesting herbs or vegetables indoors — is one way to increase our ...

The team tested whether the fungi and bacteria could thrive at different ... to what happens in the human body under stress. For example, when a patient takes an antibiotic, the medicine destroys ...

So far, over 400 species of fungi and bacteria have been found to degrade ... used in the production of polyurethanes. A well-known example of a plastic-eating bacterium is Ideonella sakaiensis ...

For example, some of the microbes carried drug ... In Petri dishes, some of the bacteria and fungi collected in the air samples grew into colonies, indicating that they were viable.

The bacteria and fungi that live in and around cancers may ... Bacteria found in some types of breast cancer, for example, can detoxify arsenate, a type of carcinogen known to increase the risk ...

By looking at the DNA shed by fungi and bacteria in a tumor ... appeared to be associated with worse outcomes from cancer. For example, Dr. Iliev and his colleagues found that people were more ...