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 ...

Researchers at the Francis Crick Institute and UCL have analyzed ancient DNA from Borrelia recurrentis, a type of bacteria ...

You can get in touch with Joe by emailing [email protected] Beaches in California, Hawaii, Florida, New York, Washington and Puerto Rico have been identified as "bacteria hotspots" in a new ...

The microbe, named Niallia tiangongensis, was found during Shenzhou 15 mission. It is an aerobic, spore-forming, rod-shaped bacterium with unique adaptations. Chinese scientists have discovered a ...

Exposure to certain strains of E. coli bacteria during childhood helps explain soaring rates of colorectal cancer in people under age 65, new research suggests. Although colorectal cancer is more ...

These live a healthy life under germ-free conditions. However, after colonization with gut bacteria, they can develop a MS-like disease. As part of the study, the mice were given samples from a ...

Gram-positive bacteria can be cocci- (spheres) or bacilli- (rod) shaped, or have branching filaments. Gram-negative bacteria have an outer membrane. However, they have a thinner peptidoglycan cell ...

Meanwhile, a blood sample came back positive for Gram-positive cocci bacteria. "Despite aggressive therapy, the patient remained in profound coma without sedation", the report authors said.

About 5,000 years ago, a bacterium that was primarily transmitted via ticks made a switch to louse. That may have been a ...