Due to Nontuberculous Mycobacterial (NTM) disease awareness week, there is more media exposure than usual. While that in ...

An estimated 38 trillion bacteria live in the human body—and only a small fraction are harmful to our health. However, the ...

Swimming in the blood, sweat, cells and tears of every human are small proteins known as peptides. Many peptides can kill ...

A new clinical trial suggests that a specific strain of probiotic bacteria may temporarily improve sleep quality and physical ...

Rare soil bacteria made up about 4% of those detected in 117 Loess Plateau soils, yet they were the group most tied to ...

When you think of viruses, you probably think of flu-like symptoms and quarantines. Humankind has suffered from viral ...

Scientists have engineered bacteria to produce a silk-based protein using a surprising ingredient: a protein fragment from ...

A kimchi-derived bacterium, Leuconostoc mesenteroides CBA3656, bound nanoplastics well across a wide range of concentrations, ...

Overall, the study provides a controlled experimental demonstration that gut bacteria-derived polyamines actively modulate ...

Bacteria exposed to plastic nanoparticles invaded human gut cells up to 3x more often, though the effect faded by day three.

A bacterial infection is suspected of causing the deaths of hundreds of southern right whale calves in Argentina’s Patagonia ...

A magnet-producing bacterium extended the average lifespan of C. elegans worms by more than 43% while helping protect their ...