With ads everywhere for pro- or pre-biotic foods and supplements, most people are familiar with the gut microbiome—the trillions of bacteria, fungi, and viruses that colonize our digestive tract—and ...

In the multicellular soil bacterium Streptomyces coelicolor, some cells start producing lots of antibiotics after mutations delete big chunks of their genomes. Now a computer model has helped to ...

The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, part of the National Institutes of Health, is accepting applications for grants to support research on the mechanisms that influence the ...

Implementing ultraviolet environmental disinfection decreased the rates of hospital-acquired multi-drug-resistant organism and Clostridium difficile infections by 20 percent, according to a study in ...

Scientists have found that people with multiple sclerosis (MS) have a distinctly imbalanced oral microbiome—marked by a loss of beneficial bacteria and a rise in inflammation-linked microbes.

Healthy dogs and cats could be passing on multidrug-resistant organisms (MDROs; bacteria that resist treatment with more than one antibiotic) to their hospitalised owners, and likewise humans could be ...