According to WHO, approximately 6% of the worldwide population who contract COVID-19—some 400 million people—go on to develop ...

Every minute, nearly 500 antibiotic prescriptions are written in the U.S. Many of these drugs succeed, but more are being ...

(Pascal/Flickr/public domain/CC0 1.0) A specific microbe found in the human gut appears to be able to boost muscle strength, ...

Bacteria block the immune system with lactic acid and cause infections to become chronic, revealing why some wounds don't ...

A common oral bacterium tied to gum disease may help spark and fuel breast cancer, according to new research. Scientists ...

Long COVID continues to affect millions of people worldwide, and scientists are still trying to understand why some patients ...

Researchers at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) have increased the effectiveness of a standard antibiotic by a factor ...

The trillions of microbes living in the human gut are increasingly recognized as important partners in human health.

A new species of Rickettsia bacterium called Rickettsia finnyi has been identified by researchers after analysis of samples ...

Researchers find that a gut bacterium may influence muscle strength and fitness, opening the door to probiotics that support ...

Scientists have discovered the world's largest bacterium in a Caribbean mangrove swamp. Most bacteria are microscopic — but this one is so big it can be seen with the naked eye. The thin white ...