University of Gothenburg researchers have found genes that can make bacteria resistant to antibiotics in samples of polluted air from Beijing, Chin

Antibiotic resistance has become such a major issue right around the world that the World Health Organization now considers it a global threat.

The spleen reigned supreme for several centuries.

Researchers from Boston Children’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School have jointly concluded that a major contributing factor to asthma in school-

Deep River says no pathogenic bacteria has been found in any of its ingredients or snack products and no adverse health effects stemming from the p

Last week, the journal Antibiotic Agents and Chemotherapy posted an accepted manuscript that contains some very bad news: an easy-to-spread gene th

Salmonella is a bacteria that can cause diarrhea, fever, and abdominal cramps. No illnesses have yet been reported, the company said.

Early in the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s investigation into the Legionnaires’ outbreak at the Veterans Affairs Pittsburgh Healthca

Fermented products can range anywhere from beer to sourdough bread to soy sauce to ethanol fuels.

Believe it or not there is such a thing as scalp smell and that's not a compliment.

Exercised-related changes in the gut bacteria of horses early in training have been identified in a study in Brazil.

A public health expert wants raw chicken labelled with the amount of bacteria it contains.

Firstly, and perhaps most obviously, wearing undies to bed doesn’t allow your crotch area to breathe meaning that sweat and bacteria can easily bui

Nearly two-thirds of supermarket chicken has tested positive for campylobacter in a study by a consumer watchdog.

More than six years after the BP Deepwater Horizon spill, scientists are still observing the effects of the devastating environmental disaster.

Those ways include using large nets that entangle other animals as well as the shrimp, and also coastal farms, which have been shown to disrupt the

Does your family love chicken? Make sure you're cooking it properly.

The county Department of Water Supply detected E. coli bacteria Thursday in the Ualapue shaft on Molokai, according to an announcement.

"The consequence of general pasteurization, which kills pathogenic but also lactic acid bacteria in milk, proves to be the cause of the global

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A new study revealed that a newly discovered protein protects the body from potential inflammation and fat accumulation by binding in the bacteria

Bacterial resistance isn’t always the result of adaptation to antibiotics. Sometimes the bacteria just go to sleep.

Scientists are battling blood poisoning using magnets by coating antibodies that attach to bacteria in iron and sifting the bacteria away from othe

Tiny predators in the soil can literally sniff out their prey: soil bacteria, which communicate with each other using scent.