Cable bacteria are multicellular prokaryotes that transfer electrons over centimeter-scale distances in marine and freshwater ...

Research suggests diet and E coli infections in childhood could be laying the ground for agressive bowel cancer decades later ...

Scientists have discovered a new type of immune defense in E. coli bacteria that turns viral infection machinery against the ...

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

This article is authored by Deepak Kapur, chairman, Rotary International India’s National PolioPlus Committee (RI-INPPC).

Bowel cancer is on the rise in young people – even in those with no family history of the disease or obvious risk factors, ...

The risk of developing blood cancer increases with age. The finding that a molecule from gut bacteria plays a part points to ...

The study tracks mammoth evolution over a million years using mitogenomes, showing shifts in diversity and lineage tied to ...

As antimicrobial resistance (AMR) has become a global health concern, with millions of deaths occurring each year due to it, ...

Stanford University researchers report that ciprofloxacin use drives persistent antibiotic resistance in human gut bacteria, ...

Since time immemorial, plants and arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi have coexisted in a mutually beneficial relationship. The fungi colonize plant roots and help them absorb nutrients. In return, plants ...

Gene mutations linked to a bacterial toxin were more common in people who developed cancer early than those diagnosed after ...