Your Kitchen Sponge Contains More Bacteria Than Any Other Object in Your House
I'm never doing the washing up ever again.
I'm never doing the washing up ever again.
It’s a provocative message, but sceptics say their advice is grossly premature—and even reckless.
What’s a strand of DNA but data?
This discovery is problematic on at least two levels.
Given how preliminary our understanding of our gut bacteria is, it’s very likely that some supplements can work in direct opposition of others.
Researchers from South Korea have engineered a strain of bacteria that infiltrates tumours and fools the body’s immune system into attacking cancer cells.
There's no poo on our polymer pounds
Researchers at Ghent University have hit on a method of harvesting energy from raw sewage that treats the wastewater without using external electricity. It’s all thanks to starving bacteria.
British red squirrels are being afflicted by a medieval strain of leprosy that was thought to have disappeared from Europe over 700 years ago.
It’s the first time this super-strain has been found in the US, and disturbingly, four of the first seven patients infected with it have died.
Probably not a piece of news you ever hoped to see.
A new paper in ACS Infectious Diseases details a new technique that combines two existing food contamination detection methods into a single, fast diagnostic test.
No matter how sad you are about the Chocolate Hobnob it needs to go in the bin.
By building a gigantic petri dish, researchers have produced an incredible visualisation showing bacteria as it mutates to become resistant to drugs. Read more >>
Researchers have taken a significant step forward in the effort to develop a vaccine against the bacteria responsible for strep throat, toxic shock syndrome, and flesh-eating disease.
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