If gut bacteria are too similar to the protective layer of nerves, they can misdirect the immune system and cause it to ...

From saccharin in the 19th century to stevia and monk fruit in the 21st, researchers and the food industry have long sought a ...

Bacteria are among the most diverse and ancient forms of life on Earth. Yet, much of what is known about them comes from a ...

Northwestern Medicine investigators have identified issues with most genomic sequence data for the Neisseria gonorrhoeae ...

Colibactin is a powerful toxin produced by Escherichia coli and other bacteria living in the human gut. This highly unstable ...

A new study shows that everyday chemicals can disturb gut microbes, change community balance, and even increase antibiotic resistance.

Researchers suggest targeting the fatty coat of tuberculosis bacteria could enhance the effectiveness of existing TB ...

After a patient's death, the state health department found germs that cause Legionnaires’ disease in the water at St.

Some bacteria can disarm antibiotics by tying them up. Others can pump them out before they can work. And some can eat them. Now, researchers can explain how these drug-gobbling germs do it. And they ...

Researchers at Stockholm University have uncovered surprising insights into a large, previously unstudied group of bacteria, ...

Acute infections, which are short-lived Chronic infections, which can last weeks, months, or a lifetime Latent infections, which may not cause symptoms at first but can reactivate over a period of ...

Bacteria typically live out their teeny-tiny lives in the microscopic realm, but now scientists have found a gargantuan one the size and shape of a human eyelash. The new find is "by far the largest ...