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

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

Bacterial metabolites queuine and preQ1 have been found to directly regulate protein synthesis in human cells, promoting or ...

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 ...

GILLETTE, Wyo. (AP) – Federal land managers have rejected an application by a Colorado company to use bacteria to produce methane from northeast Wyoming coal beds. Luca Technologies Inc. wants to use ...

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 ...

I regularly write about the microbiome – the trillions of bacteria that share our bodies with us, and the genes that they carry. At the recent International Human Microbiome Congress in Paris, I was ...

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.

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