Researchers also believe the bacteria is not as commonly found within ancient teeth because the human diet included less refined sugar and fewer processed foods than are consumed today ...

The discovery that bacteria carried in the human gut can survive in Martian soil could have implications for crewed missions to Mars. As space agencies plan for future crewed missions to Mars ...

To get a better sense of these bacteria, the researchers obtained more human gut samples, along with those from other primates, as well as some vintage poop samples that humans left behind over ...

Thanks to lab-grown miniature intestines, researchers at Uppsala University have successfully mapped how aggressive Shigella bacteria infect the human gut.

Within the human digestive tract are trillions of bacteria from thousands of different species. These bacteria form ...

Infrequent exposure In bacteria, CRISPR serves as a memory immune response. When bacteria encounter viral DNA, they can incorporate part of the sequence into their own DNA. Then, if the virus is ...