Dust mites live in our sheets, feeding on dead skin that is shed from our bodies. Our skin supports a wide variety of life, including fungi, tiny mites in our eyelash follicles, and several types of ...

Bacteria are everywhere. Trillions of these microscopic, single-celled organisms make their home on your body and inside it. Should you be alarmed? Hardly, here's the truth about bacteria.

A deep-sea bacteria could be the answer to cleaning up decades-old oil spills in weeks After a disastrous deep-sea oil spill, a bacteria was discovered at great ocean depths, feasting on the oil.

Recent scientific breakthroughs have revealed an extraordinary relationship between gut bacteria and the microorganisms in our digestive system and our mental well-being. These microscopic ...

Microbiology is the study of microscopic organisms, such as bacteria, viruses, archaea, fungi and protozoa. This discipline includes fundamental research on the biochemistry, physiology ...

Students, employees and contractors at Palomar High School in Chula Vista were notified Friday of a possible tuberculosis ...

A research team at Shandong First Medical University in China has now developed a solution that actively hunts down and destroys resistant bacteria. They created microscopic particles that combine the ...

Mutations — distortions in bacterial genetic material — can cause bacteria to acquire proteins that pump the antibiotic out ...

The research, conducted by microbial ecologists at Utrecht University in the Netherlands, analyzed cheddar’s distinctive ...