The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued an advisory after testing samples of Raaw Energy dog food showed the ...

Tiny plastic particles may be quietly reshaping microbial life in drinking water systems. Nanoplastics already raise fears because people can ingest them directly. Now scientists say these tiny partic ...

Scientists are hard at work trying to assess the scale of our microplastic pollution problem and the likely health impacts. A new study now identifies several downstream health risks these tiny ...

Christian Hertweck (left) and Jonas Fiedler at the Leibniz-HKI in Jena. They discovered an enzyme that neutralizes a virulence factor of dangerous Burkholderia bacteria. Burkholderia pseudomallei is ...

Scientists are warning that a little-known group of microbes called free-living amoebae may pose a growing global health threat. Found in soil and water, some species can survive extreme heat, ...

Using silver nanoparticles and portable Raman spectroscopy, researchers have created a rapid, cost-effective test that identifies dangerous bacteria in beef within minutes, a breakthrough that could ...

Our bathrooms are a strange mix of biological necessity, hydraulic engineering, and personal hygiene. Within the same small ...

These products have been found to be contaminated with harmful bacteria, including Listeria monocytogenes, Salmonella, and ...

Light is a universal stimulus that influences all living things. Cycles of light and dark help set the biological clocks for ...

Desert dust storms carry harmful bacteria from western India to the Himalayas, altering airborne microbes and increasing risks of respiratory, skin, and gastrointestinal infections in high-altitude ...

Common gut bacteria use protein delivery systems to interact directly with human cells, reshaping how scientists view the microbiome.