You and the trillions of microbes in your gut can live in harmony. Kateryna Kon/Science Photo Library via Getty Images I became very interested in how these home test kits work, what kind of ...

“I thought it would be fun for people to know all the little nastiness that we don’t think about every day,” Chicago microbiologist Nicholas Aicher said Getty;howdirtyis/TikTok Nicholas Aicher — ...

The government is once again offering free at-home COVID tests. If you saved some from the last time they were issued, now would be a good time to double-check their expiration dates. Most of the over ...

Microbiologists are on a quest to unravel a rare phenomenon involved in antibiotic resistance and how it may change our understanding of infections. When you purchase through links on our site, we may ...

Altru Health System microbiologists are celebrating their big discovery of a very small thing. A team of microbiologists who recently discovered a bacteria species have named it "altruii" after the ...

When David Byrd went off to college, his goal had nothing to do with academics. "I went to college from high school having no idea -- as most kids do -- what I wanted to do, but I did know I wanted to ...

Almost everyone has dropped food on the floor and was immediately filled with disappointment because they still wanted to eat it. The moment is often met with someone nearby yelling, “Five-second rule ...

When you hear about the gut microbiome, does it ever make you wonder what tiny creatures are teeming inside your own body? As a microbiologist who studies the microbiomes of plants, animals, and ...