Plastic waste is a major problem around the world. About 7 billion of the 9.2 billion tons of plastic that was generated from 1950 to 1970 became trash and was not recycled. Between 1980 and 2018, the ...

A mineral-hogging fungus can “bully” bacteria into becoming more antibiotic resistant, according to new work published June 20 in the journal PLOS Biology by Fred Hutch Cancer Center scientists. The ...

A creative solution for plastic pollution may be hiding in the Swiss Alps and the Arctic. These chilly environments house tons of microbes with unique traits, as scientists have discovered in recent ...

A common gut fungus could lead to new treatments for one of the world's most common chronic liver disorders, scientists say. Despite the condition's prevalence, only one drug has been approved by the ...

The fungus Candida albicans lives in the gut and exacerbates gastrointestinal disease under certain conditions.. (Salt Lake City) - Bacteria's role in gut health has received a lot of attention in ...

When weird fungal epidemics crop up in far-flung places, scientists work together to unravel how the microscopic murderers ...

Living in a house made of fungi and bacteria may sound like the stuff of science fiction, but researchers are now one step closer to eventually making it a reality, according to a new study.Related ...

What’s living in your socks also colonises your shoes. This is why you might not want to wear the same pair of shoes for too ...