“While an E Coli level faecal coliform , a bacterium found in human and animal faeces, of 300ml and above does not affect marine life much but it d

About 100 million years ago, a lowly amoeba pulled off a stunning heist, grabbing genes from an unsuspecting bacterium to replace those it had lost

The company’s candidate, AZT-01, is a recombinant strain of a safe skin bacterium that secretes therapeutic proteins.

But since we started slinging antibiotics at every real or imagined pathogenic threat, we created the perfect conditions to make resistance genes t

The bacterium is often found in water supplies, and the disease can be deadly.

Traditionally, it was thought that FtsZ must organize into a ring in order to recruit a dozen of other proteins and together with them exert an hom

C. difficile, a bacterium that causes inflammation of the colon and causes life-threatening diarrhea, is found in U.S. hospitals.

Pseudomonas aeruginosa is a common bacterium of our environment.

The team explains that in patients colonized with C.

Hud thinks that energy from the sun would have heated the primordial soup enough to break the bonds between the two strands of the DNA double helix

FYI, there’s a “newer” STD you should ask your doctor about, too.

“We’ll use geographical information systems previously applied to mapping bird flu to track the transmission from farms and detect the bacterium Co

An outbreak of the bacterium, Burkholderia cepacia, at Hospital Dr.

I advocate for prevention and to notify the public that ticks are not the only means of transmitting these tick-borne illnesses: The bacterium that

Known as Desulforudis audaxviator, the rod-shaped bacterium thrives 2.8 kilometers underground in a habitat devoid of the things that power the vas

It manages to live though there’s no oxygen, no carbon and no light.

Although not particularly well studied as a probiotic, this bacterium has many potential health benefits.

These early organisms included bacteria and the ancestors of modern complex cells.

People who retain a particular bacterium in their gut after a bout of food poisoning may be at an increased risk of developing Crohn's disease

In two cases the bacterium could be traced to Denmark and workers on those farms had known contact with pig farms in Denmark.

Checking for ticks. Lyme disease can be delivered through ticks and it is a very serious illness.

difficile infections. Clostridium difficile is a bacterium that infects about 500,000 people per year in the United States.

To study how a bacterium allocates its resources, we compared the costs and benefits of most (86%) of the proteins in Escherichia coli K-12 during

The creature is a bacterium, Desulforudis audaxviator, discovered in the world’s deepest mine: the Mponeng Gold Mine of South Africa’s North West P