A microbe found in the lower part of the gut that is associated with good health has been comprehensively analyzed and found to have a focused diet breaking down sugars locked away in mucus, according ...

Helping people remain healthy and fit for as long as possible will be crucial as populations around the world get older.

A new ally is emerging in the increasingly urgent battle against superbugs – and you might have encountered it before at the ...

On the night of October 5-6, 1923, Carnegie astronomer Edwin P. Hubble took a plate of the Andromeda Galaxy (Messier 31) with the Hooker 100-inch telescope of the Mount Wilson Observatory. This plate, ...

Evolution was fueled by endosymbiosis, cellular alliances in which one microbe makes a permanent home inside another. For the ...

Mediterranean Diet is a way of eating that emphasises plant-based foods and healthy fats Read this article to understand how ...

“If bacteria survive in a harsh, polluted environment, it’s probably because they have adapted to use surrounding chemical ...

However, new findings from Konstantinidis and his team suggest otherwise, positing that bacteria not only form species but also maintain cohesion within these species through mechanisms that closely ...

Capnocytophaga infections in humans are rare, especially in historically healthy individuals. But when it occurs, the disease ...

When Kostas Konstantinidis proved that many bacteria—like plants and animals—are organized into species, he upended a ...

Using the improved technique, McCurry found that certain glucocorticoids are more abundant in human bile than others. The ...