Ubiquitous industrial chemicals and pesticides have a "toxic effect" on germs that play a key role in maintaining human health and could be a threat to male reproductive health, according to two teams ...

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 ...

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 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 microbiome in the vagina has received less attention than its cousin in the gut – but a well-balanced vaginal microbiome ...

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 ...

A growing body of evidence indicates that the microbiome within the gut and tumors significantly influences cancer initiation, progression, and treatment response.

Mold was found at Chernobyl in 1997, and later scientists noticed radiation at the reactor was attracting numerous types of fungi.

A large-scale laboratory screening of human-made chemicals has identified 168 chemicals that are toxic to bacteria found in ...

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 ...

Using CRISPR gene editing technology, researchers from Jiangnan University in China took a fungus that is already used as a ...