According to the study, all microwaves appear to harbor bacteria. But using the microwave at work may be riskier than nuking ...

Conjugation is a form of horizontal gene transfer that allows the exchange of genetic material between two organisms or cells ...

They can enter the skin through a hair follicle or after a wound. Anthrax is one type of bacteria that can come from the environment. Staphylococcus and Streptococcus are bacteria that are ...

Mangalam is the lead author of a new study recently published in the journal PNAS, which found that the ratio of two types of ...

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) Bacteria can embed themselves permanently in host cells by using specific enzymes to ...

A group of scientists from the University of Oldenburg, Germany, has discovered how special bacteria in the ocean break down ...

Microplastics-tiny shards of plastic debris-are all over the planet. They have made their way up food chains, accumulated in oceans, clustered in clouds and on mountains, and been found inside our ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention identified the cause of the illness to be a particular type of bacteria. Legionella bacteria were discovered in the cooling towers of a hotel that ...