When observing small worms under a microscope, one might observe something very surprising: the worms appear to make a ...

A new study reveals how gut bacteria may initiate ulcerative colitis by weakening immune defenses before inflammation occurs.

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Like in humans, microbe levels can indicate health of ecosystem, say scientists from Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Haifa ...

At first, the idea feels strange. You eat your own food, take your own vitamins, choose what goes on your plate, so why would ...

It started as ordinary fieldwork and ended with scientists questioning what they thought they knew. In one of the harshest ...

This is borne out by a poem by Hilaire Belloc, an old sailor and poet, who penned “The Microbe,” which begins, “The Microbe ...

Biologists are confronting a problem they thought they had mostly solved: what, exactly, counts as life. A wave of ...

The robot is hard to see without a microscope. It’s small enough to rest on the ridge of a fingerprint and can operate in ...

Officials released an update Tuesday after testing revealed the presence of Legionella in the Oakland County courthouse last ...

This is a complication which can occur when the UTI progresses to the kidneys; the bacterial infection can cause serious ...