Some antibiotics don’t actually kill bacteria — they just pause them But once treatment ends, those bacteria can bounce back and cause the infection to return Now, scientists at the University of ...

The Fix: Use the rough side of a sponge or a dish cleaning brush with stiff bristles to clean your wooden utensils. For deep odors and stains, apply a paste made with baking soda and water, scrub with ...

Ancient DNA from a Colombian hunter-gatherer reveals a 5,500-year-old infection, rewriting what we know about syphilis and ...

Concerns have been expressed in Guatemala over the safety of bottled water compared with naturally occurring water sources.

In Guatemala’s Western Highlands, researchers found that the drinking water people trust most may actually be the riskiest.

Scientists have recovered a genome of Treponema pallidum—the bacterium whose subspecies today are responsible for four ...

The gut microbiome is intimately linked to human health and weight. Differences in the gut microbiome—the bacteria and fungi in the gut—are associated with obesity and weight gain, raising the ...

A research team of Prof. Eijiro Miyako at the Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (JAIST) has discovered that the bacterium Ewingella americana, isolated from the intestines of Japanese ...

Move over, colonoscopies — researchers report in ACS Sensors that they’ve developed a sensor made of tiny microspheres packed with blood-sensing bacteria that detect markers of gastrointestinal ...

Penn State scientists uncovered an ancient bacterial defense where dormant viral DNA helps bacteria fight new viral threats. The enzyme PinQ flips bacterial genes to create protective proteins that ...