Breathing through the nose is significantly healthier than mouth breathing. Nose breathing filters, humidifies, and warms the ...

Earwax, medically known as cerumen, is a substance naturally produced by glands in the ear canal. It serves critical ...

Studies have shown that reusable humidifiers can spread pathogens, including bacteria and viruses ... smoke make congestion worse by damaging tiny hairs in your nose called cilia. These hairs help ...

Bacteria have been used to generate polyesters such as polyhydroxyalkanoates (PHAs) in the past, but nylon-like plastics such as those used in clothing and shoe manufacturing have been difficult ...

Mar. 12, 2025 — A lung function test used to help diagnose asthma works better in the morning, becoming less reliable throughout the day, researchers have found. Using real world data from 1,600 ...

Mar. 13, 2025 — Older adults who were exposed to seasonal flu viruses that circulated prior to 1968 are more likely to have some protection against H5N1, and children would benefit more from ...

So when accounting for the complexity of the bacterial community dynamics with BV, it may be questioned whether antibiotic susceptibility testing in vitro is actually of any value to the study of BV.

It’s created when sugar is fermented by a type of bacteria called Xanthomonas campestris. When sugar is fermented, it creates a broth or goo-like substance, which is made solid by adding an alcohol.

Microplastics have become an unavoidable part of modern life. Now, a new study suggests that their presence could be helping bacteria become resistant to life-saving antibiotics. Researchers at ...

Oceanic bacteria eat organic matter, producing bicarbonate as a digestive by-product. Without currents, the load of bicarbonate could have grown in the deep ocean. Knoll thinks something big—he ...