We've posted quite a bit about fecal transplants,...  ...diff, a dangerous antibiotic-resistant strain of bacteria . C. diff is opportunistic, and tends to take up r...  ...lready used antibiotics to kill off other harmful bacteria -and killed off beneficial bacteria as well....

When we think about microbes, we think "germs." We...  ...es, we think "germs." We try our best to kill the bacteria , viruses, fungal spores, and tiny creatures that...

Neatorama presents a guest post from actor, comedi...  ...d, the average toothbrush hosts up to 100 million bacteria . These include various strains of staphylococci,...  ...which contains more than 600 different species of bacteria ), it is also vulnerable to spray from a flushed t...  ...which coats all object...

Lake Urmia in Iran is suffering the fate of many l...  ...algae called Dunaliella and an archaic family of bacteria known as Halobacteriaceae.“Previous researc...

Ötzi the Iceman is the name given to a frozen...  ...s that Ötzi carried Helicobacter pylori, the bacteria that causes ulcers, in his gut. Many people carry...  ...ientists have identified different strains of the bacteria in different parts of the world. And that's where...  ...who originally came fro...

You may have some older relatives that get all nos...  ...ey made salt-rising bread rise with environmental bacteria . Yes, they did.In the early 20th century, this le...  ...east completely “but literally swarmed with bacteria .”In 1910 Kohman was funded by the aforement...  ...ake it, and concluded...

Yes, it’s really pink. All the time. No, Dr. Seuss didn’t fill it with pink ink, although that was the first thing that came to mind. This is one of many pink lakes, ponds, and lagoons in Australia, and there...

When you fart, are you spraying microbes all over? Should we fear the effects of flatulence in a crowd? Science is on the question!“It all started with an enquiry from a nurse,” Dr Karl Kruszelnicki told list...

[http://youtu.be/znnp-Ivj2ek] (YouTube link)Every...  ...uTube link)Every time we develop a weapon against bacterial diseases, the bacterial evolve to get around it. In this war, we have int...  ...t. In this war, we have intelligence, but for the bacteria , it’s a matter...

Prestige offers “Pure and Vegetarian”...  ...t when you drink regular water, you are ingesting bacteria and viruses, which are “animals.” Whe...  ...o for this? The ad campaign ignores the fact that bacteria and viruses are not animals. They have their own...  ...so ignores the fact that...