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The Gut-Brain Connection: How the Bacteria in Your Gut Influences Mental Health
By Dr. Lori Jokinen Nearly 100 trillion bacteria live within your body, specifically in your intestines, that are key to your overall health and immune function. These bacteria are also essential in...
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Antibiotic Resistance Is Spreading From People to Chimpanzees
By Carol Clark-Emory “Our results suggest that antibiotic-resistant bacteria is actually spreading from people to non-human primates by making its way into the local watershed,” says senior author...
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Organic Meat Is Less Likely To Hold Dangerous Bacteria
By Johns Hopkins University The findings highlight the risk for consumers to contract foodborne illness—contaminated animal products that sicken tens of millions of people in the US each year—and the...
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Team Solves Mystery of How Bacteria Clean Up Radioactive Waste
By Michigan State “The biological mechanism of how they were doing this remained elusive for 20 years,” says Gemma Reguera, a microbiologist whose team solved that mystery 10 years ago. Well,...
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Extremophiles: Resilient Microorganisms That Help Us Understand Our Past –...
By Jaz L Millar, Cardiff University In the infamous words of Jurassic Park consultant Dr Ian Malcolm, “life finds a way”. In the depths of the ocean, in volcanic springs, under four metres of ice:...
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Some Starved Bacteria May Survive for 100,000 Years
By Terri Greene-Indiana U. In a paper in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, researchers detail their study of about 100 populations of different bacteria in closed systems, which...
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Personal Hygiene Is the First Step Towards Caring for Our Body
— All men want to make sure they create a good first impression. The tricky part with first impressions, though, is that you only get one to make. Personal hygiene is a huge component of the way other...
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Weird Bacteria Metabolism Could Lead To Tastier Fermented Foods
By Amy Quinton-UC Davis Lactic acid bacteria are essential in creating fermented foods like yogurt, cheese, and sauerkraut. Certain strains are also used as probiotics to improve human gut health....
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Will Climate Change Increase the Presence of Pathogens in Drinking Water?
By Kari Lydersen As storms grow more severe and temperatures climb, contamination of groundwater by animal and human waste could be on the rise as well. Editor’s note: This story is part of a...
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‘Why Do Americans Love Cold Water and Cold Drinks?’
“Drinking cold water is not good for the body,” a president of a traditional Chinese medicine foundation said. My parents immigrated to America in 1995, and I was born two years later. In China,...
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58% Of Human Infectious Diseases Can Be Worsened by Climate Change – We...
By Tristan McKenzie, University of Gothenburg; Camilo Mora, University of Hawaii, and Hannah von Hammerstein, University of Hawaii Climate change can exacerbate a full 58% of the infectious diseases...
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Viruses May Be ‘Watching’ You – Some Microbes Lie in Wait Until Their Hosts...
By Ivan Erill, University of Maryland, Baltimore County After more than two years of the COVID-19 pandemic, you might picture a virus as a nasty spiked ball – a mindless killer that gets into a cell...
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How To Keep Your Jack-o’-Lantern From Turning Into Moldy, Maggoty Mush Before...
By Matt Kasson, West Virginia University For many Americans, pumpkins mean that fall is here. In anticipation, coffee shops, restaurants and grocery stores start their pumpkin flavor promotions in late...
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No Smarter Than Bacteria?
By Dan Lennon Life is inextricably tied to the climate. Over the four and a half billion years of the Earth’s existence, the climate has changed dramatically, from a planet with no oxygen to one with...
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New Foods Can Go From Yucky To Yummy as People’s Perceptions Evolve
By Pieter Devuyst Dr Janina Seubert believes the path to healthier human diets is through the nose. Seubert, a cognitive neuroscientist at the Karolinska Institute in Sweden, is researching the role...
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Engineered ‘Living Materials’ Could Help Clean up Water Pollution One Day
By Jonathan K. Pokorski, University of California, San Diego and Debika Datta, University of California, San Diego Water pollution is a growing concern globally, with research estimating that chemical...
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Microbes Could Help Reduce the Need for Chemical Fertilizers
By Anne Trafton | MIT News Production of chemical fertilizers accounts for about 1.5 percent of the world’s greenhouse gas emissions. MIT chemists hope to help reduce that carbon footprint by...
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Factory Farms’ Antibiotic Use Is Mounting, Despite Promises to Cut Back
By Sophie Kevany, Sentient Media It’s a well-known fact that factory farms rely on antibiotics to treat animals raised in cramped, unsanitary conditions. Lesser known is the rising quantity of...
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Newly Discovered Virus Kills ‘Sleeping’ Bacteria
By PETER RÜEGG-ETH ZURICH The discovery could help fight germs that can’t be treated with antibiotics alone. In nature, most bacteria live on the bare minimum. If they experience nutrient deficiency...
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Bacteria in the Mouth Linked to Pulmonary Fibrosis Survival
By Kelly Malcom Bacteria in the mouth may play a role in survival from idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF), finds a new study led by researchers from the University of Michigan and the University of...
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