Common Bacteria on Verge of Becoming Antibiotic-Resistant Superbugs
Antibiotic resistance is poised to spread globally among bacteria frequently implicated in respiratory and urinary infections in hospital settings, according to new research at...
Cancer-Detecting Yogurt Could Replace Colonoscopies, Blood Tests
Engineered yogurt bacteria could make detecting colorectal cancer and other diseases as simple and cheap as a pregnancy test. MIT professor Sangeeta Bhatia is...
Breakthrough in ‘Programmable’ Antibiotics to Target, Attack Drug-Resistant Microbes
The multitude of microbes scientists have found populating the human body have good, bad and mostly mysterious implications for our health. But when something...
Probiotic Yogurt may Protect Pregnant Women and Children From Mercury and...
Women who live in countries where access to clean drinking water and non-toxic fish is scarce, either because of little industrialization or a high...
Scientists Identify More Than 140,000 Virus Species in the Human Gut
Viruses are the most numerous biological entities on the planet. Now researchers at the Wellcome Sanger Institute and EMBL's European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI) have...
Bacteria on Healthy Cats Treats Skin Infection in Mice, May Help...
Researchers at University of California San Diego School of Medicine used bacteria found on healthy cats to successfully treat a skin infection on mice....
