The warm, damp environments of your showerhead and toothbrush are the perfect breeding ground for microbes, and a new study ...

"You step on a nail, slice your leg, you get an open wound and the bacteria gets in,” said an infectious disease expert.

Milton displaced people and wildlife like alligators. But "it's not a monster movie out there," and there are other reasons ...

Bacteria come in a surprising variety of shapes. In addition to rod-shaped representatives such as the widely known model bacterium E. coli, there are numerous curved and even spiral-shaped bacteria.

Your toothbrushes and showerhead are bustling with life, according to a new study published in the journal Frontiers in Microbiomes, showing that more than 600 different viruses are teeming around you ...

"You step on a nail, slice your leg, you get an open wound and the bacteria gets in,” said an infectious disease expert.

A sealed rock fracture almost 50 feet below ground has remained home to microbes for the last 2 billion years—the oldest life ever discovered in such conditions. The nearly 1-foot sample ...

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

Whooping cough (also known as Pertussis) is a highly contagious respiratory illness that affects only humans. While it can ...

Most fungi associated with trees are harmless, helping the roots absorb nutrients and moisture, increasing tree tolerance to ...

Using garden soil instead of potting soil. Garden soil is an amendment mixed with native soil for use in the ground. It ...

Scientists say that their habitat has likely helped them live longer than any other life form on Earth. Scientists have found the oldest living microbes in a two-billion-year-old rock buried almost 50 ...