Ernakulam, is set to take action against the “improper treatment of bio-toilet effluents” at the railway marshalling ...

Forensic scientists investigating cases of sexual assault may be able to use the genital microbiome to identify the ...

Biomedical engineers at Duke University have demonstrated a new synthetic approach that turbocharges bacteria into producing ...

Researchers have succeeded in cultivating an ultra-small bacterial strain parasitizing archaea and classified it as new species and genus of Minisyncoccus archaeiphilus.

Vaginas host a complex microcosm of bacteria and yeasts that can fluctuate over time. However, little is known about these ...

In the Wasatch Mountains of the western US on the slopes above a spring-fed lake, there dwells a single giant organism that provides an entire ecosystem on which plants and animals have relied for ...

This discovery could also have implications in studies of polymer-secreting conglomerations of bacteria known as biofilms—the slippery goo on river rocks, for example—and in industrial ...