That innocent bowl of leftover rice on your counter isn't as harmless as it looks. Uncooked rice can contain spores of Bacillus cereus, a bacterium that can cause two different types of food poisoning ...

You stumble into bed after a long day, exhausted and ready to crash. The last thing you want to do is drag yourself to the bathroom to brush your teeth. “I’ll just do it in the morning,” you tell ...

The marine bacterium Alcanivorax borkumensis feeds on oil, multiplying rapidly in the wake of oil spills and thereby accelerating the elimination of the pollution, in many cases. It does this by ...

Researchers use dead bacteria to slow, kill colorectal cancer cells Harvesting a treatment with the dead form of Clostridium sporogenes, bacteria commonly found in soil, a team from Nanyang ...

Scientists are developing cancer-eating bacteria designed to grow inside oxygen-free tumors and attack cancer from within.

The marine bacterium Alcanivorax borkumensis feeds on oil, multiplying rapidly in the wake of oil spills, and thereby accelerating the elimination of the pollution, in many cases. It does this by ...

The marine bacterium Alcanivorax borkumensis feeds on oil, multiplying rapidly in the wake of oil spills, and thereby accelerating the elimination of the pollution, in many cases. It does this by ...

Bacteria get invaded by viruses called phages. Scientists are studying how bacteria use CRISPR to defend themselves from phages, which will inform new phage-based treatments for bacterial infections ...

You finish showering late, too tired to dry your hair properly, and collapse into bed with it still damp. This seems harmless. Your hair dries eventually, right? Unfortunately, those hours of dampness ...