E. coli outbreaks in food are making headlines, prompting questions about how to stay safe from the bacteria that can cause ...

The rod-shaped tuberculosis (TB) bacterium, which the World Health Organization has once again ranked as the top infectious ...

Louis Pasteur prepared the first liquid bacterial culture medium in 1860, containing yeast, sugar, ashes, and ammonium salt. 2 While developing this, he observed that specific chemical features of the ...

A group called the Two Frontiers Project (2FP)-funded by biotech company Seed Health - is asking people in the United States to look for "weird microbial growth" at home, in a quest to find the ...

A study on mice investigating therapeutic food for malnourished children uncovers diverse functions of a newly identified gut ...

Researchers discovered potentially far-reaching effects of a particular gut bacterium that was linked to better growth in Bangladeshi ... function, the bacterial enzyme can control levels of ...