Thankfully, Karr and his team knew where to look, starting with the strange way a common type of bacteria functions in fruit flies. Wolbachia is a parasitic bacteria living inside the cells of insects ...

Researchers at Umeå University, Sweden, and Michigan State University, U.S., have discovered a type of molecule that can kill chlamydia bacteria, but spare bacteria that are important for health.

An innovative imaging technique developed at Carnegie Mellon University reveals single bacterial cells leaving their biofilm community. Watching the bacteria in real-time at high resolution ...

May 7, 2025 — Bacterial resistance negates the effect of antibiotics in the treatment of infection. Using mouse models, researchers now show that if antibiotics are administered with an enzyme ...

Talk about a dirty little secret. One everyday appliance — a staple of domestic hygiene — may actually be harboring microscopic nasties that no amount of disinfectant can scrub away.

In late April and early May 2025, a claim (archived) circulated online that the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) would no longer require companies to limit salmonella bacteria in poultry ...

SHENZHEN -- Chinese scientists have successfully engineered a novel bacteria strain capable of simultaneously degrading five types of organic pollutants in high-salinity industrial wastewater ...

The FDA said in a press release that laboratory analysis revealed the Sunny Daze and Raven Black inks made by Sacred Tattooo Ink are contaminated with bacteria. Anyone who uses these inks is ...

Bacterial physiology is a scientific discipline that concerns the life-supporting functions and processes of bacteria, which allow bacterial cells to grow and reproduce. Microbial maximum growth ...

Microbiology is the study of microscopic organisms, such as bacteria, viruses, archaea, fungi and protozoa. This discipline includes fundamental research on the biochemistry, physiology ...

Our digestive tracts play host to trillions of bacteria that all function symbiotically to keep us healthy. However, several things can upset that fine balance of bacteria, which can impact ...

Bacterial vaginosis is confined to an asymptomatic state in at least half of the cases. Symptomatic BV, on the other hand, is most typically accompanied by foul-smelling, profuse vaginal discharge ...