A study on Singaporean octogenarians found that aging alters gut bacteria, reducing key species like Faecalibacterium ...

Leprosy Mission New Zealand is breaking the stigma surrounding the disease by working in partnership with communities and ...

Leprosy Mission New Zealand is breaking the stigma surrounding the disease by working in partnership with communities and "raise awareness to normalise leprosy".

One is the long journey from the northern hemisphere of millions of birds, the second might be Australian ducks journeying to Indonesia or PNG and back ... in order to kill bacteria and viruses ...

In the 1970s, acid rain was one of the most serious environmental threats in North America and Europe. The air was so laden ...

Early-life gut microbes may protect against diabetes, research in mice suggests Date: March 6, 2025 Source: University of Utah Health Summary: The microbiome shapes development of insulin ...

In early 2020, as word spread of a frightening new respiratory outbreak in China, the World Health Organization and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention were pressed for advice.

Experts say the virus could become a larger problem if it gets passed to endangered whooping cranes Sarah Kuta Humans have evolved alongside microbes in Earth's environment that help strengthen ...

The microbes they discovered appeared to rely on one of two survival strategies. Some microbes had smaller, streamlined genomes built for efficiency. These organisms had evolved specialized ...

Immune cells that eat bacteria in the body don't stash them in specialized compartments as once thought, but turn them into critical nutrients that build proteins, create energy and keep the cells ...

Genomic sequencing has revealed that individual strains of life-threatening, antibiotic-resistant bacteria and Candida auris fungi reside on human skin and can be commonly transmitted between ...

Scientist is proud to have led "the first astrobiology study to involve Algeria," and believes that his findings are a major step towards finding evidence of life on Mars. Scientists searching for ...