Resolutions to improve health typically include measures such as more exercise, a healthier diet and stopping smoking. But ...

In essence, “someone’s microbiome composition affects their overall health,” Amy Burkhart, MD, RD, a physician and registered ...

Bacteria and viruses are often lumped together as germs, and they share many characteristics. They’re invisible to the human eye. They’re everywhere. And both can make us sick. Bacteria and viruses ...

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

Colorectal cancer is considered a disease of old age, but young adults are increasingly affected. The research network “PerMiCCion”, led by Prof. Gianni Panagiotou at the Leibniz Institute for Natural ...

Researchers at Columbia Engineering have built a cancer therapy that makes bacteria and viruses work as a team. In a study published today in Nature Biomedical Engineering, the Synthetic Biological ...

Scientists generally agree that eukaryotes, the domain of life whose cells contain nuclei and that includes almost all multicellular organisms, originated from a process involving the symbiotic union ...

A widely used disinfectant worldwide, chloroxylenol, has been associated with eco-toxicological threats in water environments due to its relatively high chemical stability and massive consumption.

A petri dish full of dead bacteria isn’t usually cause for celebration. But for Stanford’s Brian Hie it was a game-changer in his efforts to create synthetic life. The perpetrator was a type of virus ...

Exercise is good for you – but the gym might not be. Dumbbells, barbells and every machine in between can act as reservoirs for a wide variety of transmissible bacterial, viral and fungal pathogens – ...