Aggressive marketing by raw milk proponents has included claims that raw milk is easier to stomach for for lactose-intolerant people but a pilot study from the Stanford University School of…

We tend to think of antibiotic resistance as a product of modern medicine and the mutation ability of pesky viruses to get around dying. Writing in the journal Applied and Environmental Microbiology…

A new study finds that bacterial movement is impeded in flowing water, enhancing the likelihood that the microbes will attach to surfaces, which sheds some new light on how infections take hold…

Would avant-garde musician be offended that scientists named a zit-causing bacterium P. acnes type Zappae. No, he would probably laugh.  But to winemakers it's not all that funny, it's instead a…

As if pretty people didn't have enough advantages, they may also give us a glance at their reproductive health, according to a paper in the American Journal of Human Biology reveals a link…

Researchers have discovered the genetic machinery that turns the common gut bacterium Bacteroides ovatus  into the Swiss Army knife of the digestive tract, helping us metabolize a main component…

Mexico is considered one of the leading countries in papaya production but its crops are affected by the virus of the ringed spot, which leaves ring marks in the skin of the fruit and causes…

Want yogurt but don't like the exploitation of dairy cows? Researchers at the Universitat Politècnica de València have some good news. They have used  plant-based “milks” to create products…

Some bacteria achieve resistance to antibiotics through mutation but other types of bacteria, known as 'persistent' bacteria, are not resistant to the antibiotics but simply continue to exist in a…

In a new paper, a team reports their recent work examining  the effects of spaceflight on microbial pathogens - in this case infectious disease potential of the fungal pathogen, Candida…