Researchers are now exploring ways to use 'probiotics', or friendly bacteria, to counteract pathogenic bacteria responsible for these infections. A new pilot study suggests that probiotics might ...

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Your gut microbiome, the bacteria, fungi and other microbes living inside your intestines, plays a role in many aspects of your health. A plentiful and diverse colony of helpful bacteria living in ...

Microbes that reside peaceably in the nasal passageways and on the skin can be harnessed for taking drugs to target cells.

UCSF scientists are taking the first steps toward creating a new type of antibiotic that uses an unusual virus to defeat ...

Our process uses enzymes to break down these materials into basic building blocks, which bacteria can then convert into useful products. Every year, over two billion tonnes of municipal solid waste ...

Biomedical engineers at Duke University have demonstrated a new synthetic approach that turbocharges bacteria into producing more of a specific protein, even proteins that would normally destroy them, ...

Phages are viruses that attack bacteria by injecting their DNA, then usurping bacterial machinery to reproduce. Eventually, they make so many copies of themselves that the bacteria burst.