Antimicrobial resistance - when bacteria and fungi defend themselves against the drugs design to kill them - is an urgent threat to global public health, according to the Centers for Disease Control ...

Researchers are continually looking for new ways to hack the cellular machinery of microbes like yeast and bacteria to make ...

Wildfire causes most living things to flee or die, but some fungi thrive afterward, even feasting on charred remains. New ...

Bacteria in the human gut can directly deliver proteins into human cells, actively shaping immune responses. A consortium led ...

Food Manufacture examines the key stumbling blocks behind most major recalls, looking at where producers can go wrong and ...

Postbiotics are the beneficial compounds produced when gut bacteria, including probiotics, break down prebiotics ...

Scientists are warning that a little-known group of microbes called free-living amoebae may pose a growing global health threat. Found in soil and water, some species can survive extreme heat, ...

As is the case so often in medical science, things are multi-layered and nuanced. Food plays a major part in ensuring a ...

Kamini Walia, senior scientist at ICMR (Indian Council of Medical Research), explains how the overuse of antibiotics is ...

Scientists may have found a new way to spot early signs of obesity, which could lead to novel prevention strategies. A study ...