When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. While the exact threat level to humans is unknown, researchers are concerned for the health of ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Surprising new research shows a small but diverse community of bacteria lives in the placentas of healthy pregnant women, overturning the belief that fetuses grow in a pretty sterile ...

Yvette Florens (R), 85 years old kisses her mother French eldest person Honorine Rondello (L), 113 years old, on September 7, 2016 at the retirement home where she lives in Saint-Maximin-La ...

In a study reported in the online edition of Science on Aug. 10, 2023, a group of synthetic biologists from the University of California (UC) San Diego and clinicians from Australia have engineered ...

Many people associate NASA with exploring new worlds in space, but few know it's also finding new microscopic ecosystems right here. Years ago, Kasthuri Venkateswaran, a scientist who decontaminates ...

In the 1940s, the famous Luria–Delbrück experiment showed that bacteria evolve resistance to drugs they'd never encountered thanks to a random mutational process. When you purchase through links on ...

We’re all told that to live longer, we must exercise regularly, eat a healthy diet, get enough sleep, maintain an optimal weight, not smoke, and manage stress. But why do some people naturally make it ...

When bacteria die, their bodies rupture and spill a buffet of nutrients for neighboring microbes. The live cells feast on molecules served by their dead counterparts and in turn become a meal for ...

A scientist who was working on plague-causing bacteria caught the disease despite using weakened strains that were deemed noninfectious. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...

From a stronger immunity to clearer skin, the gut and its health has a lot to answer for. And probiotics for gut health are one of the must-have supplements for women, men and even kids. Probiotics ...