In a field that has struggled for decades to keep pace with drug‑resistant infections, researchers have uncovered an antibiotic that hits some of the world’s most dangerous bacteria with roughly 100 ...

Antimicrobial resistance - when bacteria and fungi defend themselves against the drugs design to kill them - is an urgent threat to global public health, according to the Centers for Disease Control ...

Oral health in pregnant women, infants, and preschool children is a critical area of research due to the unique physiological changes and developmental stages that influence oral health outcomes.

Two companies made dried milk powder that could be linked to the outbreak of botulism in ByHeart formula that has sickened ...

Gut microbes engineered to dim their fluorescence under stress offered a real-time, noninvasive biosensor to track gut health in mice.

University of British Columbia researchers have engineered gut bacteria that dim their fluorescent glow in the presence of illness. Their findings could improve how we diagnose problems in the gut by ...

New research shows that gut bacteria and metabolites may reveal early warning signs of multiple gastrointestinal diseases. Scientists have uncovered biological signals in the gut that may make it ...

The problem of antibiotic-resistant bacteria has many health experts worried. As disease-causing bacteria adapt to some of ...

Bacteria in the human gut can directly deliver proteins into human cells, actively shaping immune responses. A consortium led ...

“A very diverse set of gut bacteria can ‘swim’ through the layer of mucus that lines the intestines using specialized thread-like structures called flagella, the assembly and function of which ...