The study, published in Environment International, highlights troubling connections between the plastics in our waterways and ...

PLAQUE ON TEETH, slime on stones, gunge around taps and showers. Biofilms—slimy, durable colonies of bacteria—are everywhere. Much of the research into them focuses on the hard-to-treat infections ...

New research shows that 'hacking' the communication channels between microbes in the mouth could boost levels of beneficial ...

Bacteria aren’t just mindless microbes. Research by scientists at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem has revealed that single bacterial cells can carry a “memory” of their past environments—passing it ...

Scientists have found both potential threats and promising resources in the thriving colonies of bacteria and fungi on plastic trash washed up on shores. A team of scientists from the Nanyang ...

This article is based on a poster originally authored by Krishna Macha, Sushmita Sudarshan, Carina Gao, Oksana Sirenko, and Sheela Muley. Bacterial and yeast strains are central to microbiology, ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Continuous surveillance of microbes on health facility surfaces may prevent outbreaks. The resulting data may ...