A recent study shows that bacteria living inside colorectal tumors form distinct ecosystems that are closely linked to how ...

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We've already seen antibacterial surfaces that kill microbes on contact, but scientists in the UK have recently gone a different and potentially more effective route. They've created maze-like surface ...

A new study has brought science one step closer to a molecular-level understanding of how patterns form in living tissue. The researchers engineered bacteria that, when incubated and grown, exhibited ...

The James River Association has released its report Swimming Safety in the James – Know Before You Go: Bacteria Monitoring Results 2013-2017. This report synthesizes five years of water quality ...

There are trillions of micro-organisms living inside every one of us. Most of these tiny tenants reside in our gut, and perhaps one of the most important medical discoveries of the past few decades ...

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Researchers have found that competing strains of Escherichia coli bacteria form distinctive lane-like patterns as their populations grow. It's well understood that populations of species don't ...

Breast milk contains living bacteria that transfer to babies' guts, helping build healthy digestion and immune systems.

In their everyday battles against harmful bacteria, physicians, food producers, and others need to know quickly which foe they’re facing. Yet the procedures currently used to identify bacterial ...

It's well understood that populations of species don't distribute at random. Rather, as populations grow, individuals are organized around barriers in the landscape. This organization can be seen in, ...