Bacteriophages infecting a bacterial cell.
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Bacteriophages are viruses that infect bacteria. But could they be key in solving the antibiotic resistance epidemic?
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More evidence that vaping may be harmful to your health.
A bowhead whale breaches the surface of the cold waters near Point Barrow, Alaska.
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New research is uncovering that whales have their own distinct microbiomes that may play important roles in animal health. But how do scientists study whale microbiomes?
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New research suggests that Earth’s oxygenation didn’t require difficult and complex evolutionary leaps forward.
He died so that we might eat cheese.
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Your taste for cheese and yoghurt may never have been satisfied were it not for illicit microbial sex.
Beauty blenders had the most germs.
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Is your makeup making you sick?
Aquaculture farmers often use antibiotics this can result in antibiotic-resistance in seafood.
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The presence of antibiotics in the environment poses a threat to global public health, food safety and human existence.
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It’s imperative that there’s research into the nature, extent, mobility and consequences of antibiotic resistance.
What happened to make plague able to cause devastating epidemics, as in this depiction from 1349?
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People caught and died from plague long before it caused major epidemics like the Black Death in the middle ages. Could what scientists call cultural resistance be what kept the disease under control?
Keep those stinkers away!
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Sweaty feet and certain cheeses have something in common that makes them reek – can you guess what it is?
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Despite awareness of the importance of hand washing, most people often fail to do it properly.
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More people are drinking unpasteurised milk but what does the evidence say?
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Enterococcus faecalis can on pass its antibiotic resistant genes.
Researchers have evidence of another method that bacteria use to avoid antibiotics.
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This breakthrough could be key in fighting antibiotic resistance.
Candida auris fungi, is becoming resistant to many anti fungal drugs.
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When people get sick, they often suspect bacteria and viruses as the cause. But now the CDC is asking physicians and patients to consider another culprit: fungi.
New research suggests that a newborn is exposed to bacteria and fungi in the womb.
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Fungi live in everyone’s gut – but now a new study reveals that this colonization may begin before birth.
Sweat keeps the human body cool, but why does it stink?
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What is the smell of sweat? An artist recreates the pungent body odor as an art installation.
Inhaling mist contaminated with Legionella pneumophila can lead to Legionnaires’ disease.
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A woman recently died from Legionnaires’ disease at an Atlanta hotel. Why? The cause is known and the disease is largely preventable. Yet the number of cases in the US continue to rise.
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The scale of antibiotic resistance among bacteria found on surfaces around London is exposed in our new study.
Rising water temperature encourage the spread of bacteria in ocean waters.
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Recent reports describe people dying from infections caused by flesh-eating bacteria. But that doesn’t that mean you can’t still enjoy time at the beach frolicking in warm water.