An engineered gut microbe can detoxify methylmercury, reducing the amount that passes into the brain and developing fetuses ...

It is not precisely this fungus that we should fear the most. Especially when there are other fungal threats out there that ...

The Travel Award for Health or Agricultural Department Employees in North America and the Travel Award for Food Safety ...

Sponsored by the IAFP Foundation, the student travel scholarships provide funds to enable selected students to travel to and ...

Adelaide Tovar, a University of Michigan scientist who researches genes related to diabetes, used to feel like an impostor in a laboratory. Tovar, 32, grew up poor and was the first in her family to ...

Six professors from the University of California San Diego have been elected in 2025 to the American Academy of Arts and ...

A type of virus thought to be a "mere curiosity" is plentiful in one common bacteria, and possibly others, a Monash ...

Traditional biochemical methods of studying human gene mutations are often laborious and costly. Now bioengineers at the University of California San Diego have developed a new simple approach to ...

Specific host factors, such as immune cell activity, sex hormones and microbiota composition, influence the ability of Staphylococcus aureus bacteria to colonize the gut of mice.

Researchers in Montana say they have found a way to turn fungus into a brick, which could eventually offer a more sustainable ...

Those who climb indoors are doing something for their health. But climbing shoes contain chemicals of concern that can enter ...

The National Academy of Sciences announced today the election of 120 members and 30 international members in recognition of ...