Kombucha is a popular drink thanks to its unique flavors and health benefits, but those benefits may make you wonder if ...

“Microplastics are like rafts — a bacteria on its own might not be able to swim down a river, but riding in its biofilm on a tiny bit of plastic it can be disseminated into many different ...

As the clean-up begins in the wake of ex-cyclone Alfred, health experts have issued a warning to residents about the deadly melioidosis bacteria, which is found in mud and water and comes to ...

But that doesn’t mean they are antiseptic and sterile. All living creatures carry around with them an assortment of bacteria. If we stopped to think about it, we’d probably wrap ourselves in ...

The ability of bacteria to control the biophysical properties of their membrane phospholipids allows them to thrive in a wide range of physical environments. Fatty acid biosynthesis is an energy ...

Scientists have long suspected that gut bacteria may influence a person’s risk of developing multiple sclerosis. But studies so far have had inconsistent findings. To address these ...

In another experiment, bacteria thrived when the proteasome functioned normally but the peptides produced within it were destroyed. The effectiveness of the peptides was also demonstrated in mice ...

For fraternal twins who share 50 percent of their genes, this rate drops to around 2 percent. Scientists have long suspected that gut bacteria may influence a person's risk of developing multiple ...

The order of the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, directing the removal of a cartoon featuring the Prime Minister, Narendra Modi, from a Tamil magazine’s website, is unwarranted and may ...

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