The type of bacterial ecosystem found in a sourdough starter depends on the type of flour used, according to a new paper. “Our new work focuses on the role that different types of flour play in ...

A new study reveals that bacteria can survive antibiotic treatment through two fundamentally different "shutdown modes," not ...

Israeli scientists have discovered that some bacteria can survive antibiotics in more than one way, helping explain why infections sometimes return after treatment, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem ...

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A large study has revealed that dozens of widely used chemicals can damage beneficial gut bacteria. Many of these substances, ...

Scientists are increasingly discovering new ways that our microbiome – the community of bacteria and viruses that live inside us – is key to our health. It could even be the source of new antibiotics.

If scientists want to find out how fast a population of bacteria grows, they often measure how their cell count changes over time. However, this method has a major flaw: it does not measure how fast ...

Maria Nieto-Rosado receives funding from Ineos Oxford Institute of Antimicrobial Resistance, University of Oxford Katy Thomson receives funding from Ineos Oxford Institute of Antimicrobial Resistance, ...

Bacteria that are resistant to colistin, a last-resort antibiotic, have for the first time been detected in Los Angeles County wastewater, suggesting that the germs are circulating more widely in the ...

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