As we grow older, the bacteria in our mouths could play an unexpected role in how well our brains work. A recent study has ...

Cooking in bulk and eating leftovers is convenient, but it comes with a higher risk of food poisoning. Rice in particular has ...

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Grist reports that climate change is loading rice—the beloved grain that feeds more than half of the world's ...

This valuable study concerns a model for transgenerational epigenetic inheritance, the learned avoidance by C. elegans of the PA14 pathogenic strain of Pseudomonas aeruginosa. A recent study ...

As the disease name implies, the first symptoms are the wilting of individual leaves, followed by longer sections of stem, then entire plants.

On U.S. dairy operations, mastitis remains the costliest disease, driven by expenses for antibiotic treatments and losses in ...

A newly discovered bacterial defense protein named Cat1 reveals an extraordinary method of viral neutralization. All living ...

To make a more efficient antibiotic treatment, researchers reporting in ACS Central Science modified penicillin, so that it’s ...

To treat bacterial infections, medical professionals prescribe antibiotics. But not all active medicine gets used up by the ...

However, this requires in-depth insights into the nature and characteristics of the samples to better understand the factors that determine bacterial growth (Pham and Kim, 2012). In microbial ...