Hold out your hands, palms up, and move them so they are on top of each other. With a little experimentation—and perhaps a ...

Project title: “Evolution of Polar Cell Wall Growth Across Bacterial Clades” What’s the idea?

Marine bacteria control how much CO2 is stored in the oceans, by swimming after and degrading sinking particles that would otherwise remain stored in the ocean for millennia. Researchers have ...

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Scientists have discovered yet another never-before-seen strand of bacteria growing on a space station. This time it was ...

Scientists have discovered a new bacteria species called niallia tiangongensis aboard China's Tiangong space station.

The bacteria that cause tuberculosis (TB) may have an "on-off switch" that lets them pause and restart growth, according to a new study from the University of Surrey and the University of Oxford.

A UC San Diego-led study linked early childhood exposure to the bacterial toxin colibactin with the rise in early-onset ...

Researchers aboard the Tiangong space station and the International Space Station (ISS) regularly test their orbital quarters ...

Some consumers and milk producers herald the perceived health benefits of raw milk, but federal and state health officials ...

The presence of so-called clue cells – vaginal epithelial cells with such a heavy coating of bacteria that the peripheral borders are obscured – on saline wet mount; A fishy or amine odor ...