Despite decades of humans safely living aboard space stations for relatively brief periods of time, questions remain about the viability of certain bacteria that balance the body over decades. For ...

Ophelia Venturelli, an associate professor of biomedical engineering at Duke, has been awarded two NIH grants to advance microbiome research. With support from the Maximizing Investigators’ Research ...

Data reveal how the global challenge to reduce deaths and infections from drug-resistant bacteria is not going according to plan.

University of Toronto researchers have made the first discovery of a virus that infects Legionella pneumophila, the bacteria that causes Legionnaires' disease.

The city may be putting a specially trained canine to work sniffing out human waste in stormwater drains and outfalls to prevent it from entering local streams, creeks, and the Flint River.

A new study shows potential links between plastic exposure to metabolic and immune disturbances. This adds evidence to growing concerns over microplastic health risks.

Our results open up an entirely new way to assess the health of a pregnant mother and her developing fetus by looking at the mother’s gut microbiome.

University of Toronto researchers have made the first discovery of a virus that infects Legionella pneumophila, the bacteria that causes Legionnaires’ disease. The findings, published in Science ...

Many medications and other therapeutic agents, including antibiotics and cancer therapies, must enter cells to reach their targets to have their effect. But that can pose a challenge, as drugs often ...

Scientists have used AI to design bacteriophages, or viruses that infect only bacteria. Does the prospect of designing viruses with AI pose threats to biosecurity?

SAN AUGUSTINE, Texas (KTRE) - From N.E.W. Water Supply Corporation: Due to a major break in the line, the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) has required the N.E.W. Water Supply ...