bacteria

Scientists engineer bacteria to eat cancer tumors from the inside out

Scientists at the University of Waterloo are working on a new cancer treatment that uses specially engineered bacteria to consume…

3 weeks ago

Everyday chemicals are quietly damaging beneficial gut bacteria

Scientists have completed a large laboratory analysis of widely used human-made chemicals and found that 168 of them are harmful…

2 months ago

Bacteria hidden inside tumors could help beat cancer

An international team of scientists led by researchers at the MRC Laboratory of Medical Sciences (LMS), Imperial College London and…

5 months ago

Smoking’s hidden gut bacteria trick may lead to new colitis treatments

Researchers led by Hiroshi Ohno at the RIKEN Center for Integrative Medical Sciences (IMS) in Japan have discovered why smoking…

6 months ago

Strange new bacteria found in Amazon sand flies. Could it spread to humans?

A new species of bacteria of the genus Bartonella has been found in the Amazon National Park in the state…

6 months ago

Microscopic heist: How lung bacteria forge weapons to steal iron and survive

Bacteria of the genus Pandoraea have not been studied much to date. Their name is reminiscent of Pandora's box from…

9 months ago

Electricity-generating bacteria may power future innovations

A team led by Rice University bioscientist Caroline Ajo-Franklin has discovered how certain bacteria breathe by generating electricity, using a…

11 months ago

Certain nasal bacteria may boost the risk for COVID-19 infection, study finds

A new study from researchers at the George Washington University has found that certain bacteria living in the nose may…

11 months ago

In the Northeast, 50% of adult ticks carry Lyme disease carrying bacteria

Across most of the Northeast, getting bitten by a blacklegged tick -- also called a deer tick -- is a…

1 year ago

Structural link for initiation of protein synthesis in bacteria

Within a cell, DNA carries the genetic code for building proteins. To build proteins, the cell makes a copy of…

1 year ago