Hand-washing works One major point the COVID-19 pandemic helped drive home is how important it is to wash your hands. Washing ...

A new, non-invasive breath test has emerged as a potential breakthrough for rapidly diagnosing bacterial infections and ...

A pair of north-central Montana bighorn sheep have tested positive for pneumonia-causing bacteria; Montana wildlife officials ...

New research has revealed that ticks are more likely to carry the bacteria that can cause Lyme Disease in areas where ...

A new type of bacteria can conduct electricity like wire and it could help revolutionize the idea of renewable energy.

Researchers have dubbed it Ca.Electrothrix yaqonensis. That’s in honor of the Yaqona tribal people, whose descendants are now ...

Some things just go together in your belly: peanut butter and jelly, salt and pepper, bacteria and bacteria-eating viruses.

Scientists have long known that bacteriophages, viruses that infect bacteria, live in our gut, but exactly what they do has ...

Scientists at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem have uncovered a surprising way in which harmful bacteria prepare to attack ...

Scientists built a model that allows them to diminish phage communities from a mouse gut microbiome -- and then bring them back -- without affecting the bacteria. On a test run of their model, ...

Ontario is experiencing an increase in ticks, and one local resident is raising awareness in hopes of sparking change.

A new bacteria-killing paint shows powerful promise in eliminating dangerous pathogens like MRSA and COVID-19 from hard ...