Under microscopes, scientists found that giant single-cell organisms were able to vacuum up more food when they are stuck together.

percent of 20 different smartwatch wristbands tested were contaminated with bacteria capable of causing disease.

Amid a surge in drug-resistant bacteria, researchers believe they have discovered a new class of antibiotics for the first ...

A team of chemists, biologists and microbiologists led by researchers in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St.

Understanding and controlling how bacteria move through obstacle-filled environments has long been a challenge. A new model ...

A drug-resistant type of bacteria that has adapted to health care settings evolved in the past several years to weaponize an ...

This work has also created a kind of "treasure map" that investigators can use to fill in the gaps in our knowledge. | ...

For samples from an animal or plant, it might include its taxonomy, which is the set of Latin names that classify it. All together, that information adds up to a mind-boggling amount of data. But ...

Fermentation enhances food preservation, and eating fermented foods can also boost the number of beneficial bacteria, or probiotics, in your gut. Fermentation is a process in which bacteria and ...

“Microplastics are like rafts — a bacteria on its own might not be able to swim down a river, but riding in its biofilm on a tiny bit of plastic it can be disseminated into many different ...

Share on Pinterest Bacterial vaginosis (BV) is not classified as a sexually transmitted infection, but the results of a new study could change that. ljubaphoto/Getty Images New research suggests a ...

Key questions remain after the publication of a landmark study in The New England Journal of Medicine that found bacterial vaginosis (BV), which affects nearly a third of women worldwide ...