Every year, 400 million tons of plastic products are produced worldwide, half of which are single-use items discarded within ...

Skeletal system photos and labeled diagrams can help you to understand the parts of the skeleton, how it's organized, the conditions that can affect it, and tests used to diagnose skeletal health. The ...

Examining a collection of K. pneumoniae bacteria with mutated versions of genes, the authors identified genes involved in carbohydrate metabolism that markedly reduced K. pneumoniae survival in ...

If you’ve been scrolling through food videos in recent years, or spent time reading about kitchen cleanliness on the internet, you might have heard a frequently quoted statistic: “the average ...

Human innards are teeming with viruses that infect bacteria. What are they up to? You've probably heard of the microbiome – the hordes of bacteria and other tiny life forms that live in our guts.

One of the remarkable features of biofilms, shared with eukaryotic tissues, is that bacteria embed themselves in the self-secreted extracellular polymeric matrix which holds the cells together ...

With billions of bacteria present in a sample of soil, the researchers relied on the genetic makeup of microbial communities to determine their functional roles. The team zeroed in on genes that ...