Fecal microbiota transplants, or FMTs, are a magic bullet for patients with recurring infections from Clostridioides ...

Oct. 3, 2024 — Comamonadacae is a family of bacteria often found growing on plastics in water. A new study finds a bacterium in this family can break down the plastic for food. Researchers also ...

While they may not "look" their age, bacteria feel the passage of time too. Bacteria differ from us in many ways, including in their modes of growth and reproduction. Unlike humans and other ...

Fecal microbiota transplants, or FMTs, are a magic bullet for patients with recurring infections from Clostridioides ...

Human innards are teeming with viruses that infect bacteria. What are they up to? You've probably heard of the microbiome – the hordes of bacteria and other tiny life forms that live in our guts.

If you’ve been scrolling through food videos in recent years, or spent time reading about kitchen cleanliness on the internet, you might have heard a frequently quoted statistic: “the average ...

One of the remarkable features of biofilms, shared with eukaryotic tissues, is that bacteria embed themselves in the self-secreted extracellular polymeric matrix which holds the cells together ...

With billions of bacteria present in a sample of soil, the researchers relied on the genetic makeup of microbial communities to determine their functional roles. The team zeroed in on genes that ...

Syracuse University researchers explore how acetic acid bacteria shapes emergent properties of sourdough, with implications ...

Scientists were finally able to analyze the DNA in the world’s oldest cheese, which was found two decades ago smeared on ...

A recent review looks at the ways in which an imbalanced gut can contribute to rheumatoid arthritis, and how diet could help ...