Antibiotics have been the workhorses of modern medicine, but their success has fueled a dangerous rise in drug-resistant ...

It turns out there is more to gas than a sheepish laugh or a quick departure from a crowded room. Scientists from Monash ...

Acidithiobacillus ferrooxidans (Atf) thrives in highly acidic environments and can feed on materials found in old batteries, ...

Researchers in the College of Health and Life Sciences at Aston University have been awarded funds to explore the microbiome of the kitchen chopping board with the help of 'citizen scientists'. The ...

Scientists have found microbes living in the charred soil that wildfires leave behind. They don't know how some fungi and bacteria manage to thrive when everything else has died, but a new project ...

This project is not being offered for the current term. Please check back next semester for updates. The human gut is home to diverse microbes and has one of the highest density of microbes on Earth.

Scientists have long known that humans don’t travel to space alone. Every astronaut carries trillions of microbes, including bacteria, with them, some beneficial, some potentially dangerous. But how ...

The human oral cavity, which includes cheeks, tongue, palate, gums, and teeth, is a highly diverse ecosystem that harbors more than 700 bacterial species, including cultivable and non-cultivable ...

Bacteria use surfaces to join together into complex heterogeneous communities known as biofilms. Within a group, bacteria in a biofilm are extremely ...

Research from the University of Gothenburg, Sweden, clarifies the complex interaction between gut bacteria and irritable ...

Previous experiments on board the International Space Station (ISS) have shown that certain types of bacteria can survive in ...