A 20-year-old archive of water samples from Lake Mendota in Madison contributed to a “game-changing” study at The University ...

Biomedical engineers at Duke University have demonstrated a new synthetic approach that turbocharges bacteria into producing ...

"It seems that we are really close to the origin of the bacteria." A Stone Age hunter-gatherer who lived in present-day ...

Juice cleanses are a popular way to 'detox' the body and reset digestion, but doctors have repeatedly warned that this fad is ...

Most major biological molecules, including all proteins, DNA and RNA, point in one direction or another. In other words, they ...

More than 26,000 people are hospitalized by the bacterial infection each year in the U.S., and 420 people die, according to ...

Photodynamic inactivation using curcumin shows promise in reducing antibiotic resistance diversity in Staphylococcus aureus, ...

Using a new method to study how carbohydrates modify proteins, scientists have discovered that gut bacteria can alter molecular signatures in the brain.

Scientists have discovered a remarkable new form of symbiosis — a bacterium that lives inside a single-celled organism (a ...

Using a powerful X-ray imaging technique, they have found detailed structural changes in the intestines of mice with ...