“You have germs on your hands then you touch the water bottle that would be an example of where you could get more of those ...

An experiment in lab mice found that certain human gut bacteria can absorb PFAS, commonly called "forever chemicals," until ...

When people take antibiotics, some of the dose is excreted with urine and feces and ends up in our wastewater. The presence ...

When tested on their own and in mice, these bacterial strains from the human microbiome show promise in accumulating PFAS ...

Bacteria are ubiquitous microscopic organisms capable of rapid growth. While beneficial strains like lactic acid bacteria ...

More than a million people a year are already dying from infections caused by microbes that are resistant to treatment – it's ...

He and a colleague proved a theory advanced by the Nobel Prize winners James Watson and Francis Crick, who discovered DNA’s ...

Going into the Fourth of July weekend, over two dozen Massachusetts beaches are closed, most due to unsafe bacteria levels.

Last year, the Zurich Cantonal Laboratory found defects in one in four samples of milk drinks from coffee machines. Too many intestinal bacteria were found in a number of samples.

There are 20 beaches closed in Massachusetts on Sunday, July 6. Beaches were closed across 18 communities, many due to high ...

A herbal mouthwash selectively killed off bad bacteria in the mouth while preserving the good strains, according to a new ...