How do the biologists know the bacteria were responsible? They injected nestling hoopoes with antibiotics that prevented the Enterococcus bacteria from taking up residence in their preen glands.

Koalas have a funny diet: Do they have funny bacteria? Date: May 13, 2015 Source: Forschungsverbund Berlin e.V. (FVB) Summary: With their specialized diet of almost exclusively eucalyptus leaves ...

A chef has issued a warning to people over the type of cutting board they're using, explaining that one type is a 'sweet home ...

Scientists are studying a unique type of bacteria that orients itself based on Earth's magnetic field and can't survive on its own.

Scientists say they've identified the bacteria that emit that rank smell after a hard workout. Future deodorants might target that bad actor rather than blocking sweat glands or nuking all bacteria.

A Princeton-led research group has discovered an isolated community of bacteria nearly two miles underground that derives all of its energy from the decay of radioactive rocks rather than from ...

Long denigrated as vestigial or useless, the appendix now appears to have a reason to be - as a "safe house" for the beneficial bacteria living in the human gut. The gut is populated with ...

Funny—by which we all mean scary— because yesterday afternoon, the CDC also released a report about a Nevada woman who died after an infection resistant to 26 antibiotics, which is to say all ...

This is bad, and we have only ourselves to blame. We are using antibiotics stupidly, making it easier for resistant bacteria to evolve, and refuse to wise up because it would be a little bit expensive ...

When bacteria are exposed to triclosan for long periods of time, genetic mutations can arise. Some of these mutations endow the bacteria with resistance to isoniazid, an antibiotic used for ...