Researchers have discovered three compounds with anti-aging properties produced by a bacterium in the blood, which reduced ...

They have shown, for the first time, that good bacteria seem to halve the risk of young children being admitted to hospital ...

In the world of microorganisms, microbes compete for turf, spew chemicals at foes, and sometimes exploit the microscopic ...

Obesity can have a distinct impact on the absorption, effectiveness and excretion of antibiotics, medications that have been ...

But they also interact with the human nervous system. Microbes can produce compounds that affect the way neurons work. They also influence the functioning of the immune system, which can have knock-on ...

A team of researchers at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) has introduced a virtual Gram staining technique that could transform how microbiologists stain and classify bacteria.

There are two main types of bacteria, and these categories reflect ... a professor of medical microbiology at the University of East Anglia in the U.K., told Live Science in an email.

Princeton MOL faculty Zemer Gitai, Britt Adamson and Ned Wingreen launched a joint effort to develop new tools to help us better understand bacteria. Their work is described in a paper that appeared ...

Bacteria found in 74 kitchens spread among 5 European countries were mostly harmless according to new research published in Applied and Environmental Microbiology, a journal of the American ...

This work won the creator category of the American Society for Microbiology agar art awards. Even artists that are used to more traditional media than bacteria on an agar plate could submit their ...

Figure 5. Comparison of temporal variation of taxonomic abundances and community structure of bacteria in seawater (SW) and biofilms of different materials (PE, PLA and glass) according to immersion ...