Heating a baby bottle is a soothing experience in most feeding schedules, be it in a late-night feeding session, during a ...

Pathogens can create sticky situations. When microbes invade the body to cause an infection, often one of their first lines ...

Decomposition is essential to all ecosystems, both on land and in the ocean. In marine environments, decomposition and ...

Using ribosome engineering (RE), researchers from Shinshu University introduced mutations affecting the protein synthesis ...

Microbes often display cooperative behavior in which individual cells put in work and sacrifice resources to collectively ...

“We found that gut bacteria, including Escherichia coli and Klebsiella pneumoniae, ferment sugars into ethanol in the ...

Mapping the genomes of the bacteria responsible for yaws, a debilitating childhood disease, has uncovered new insights into ...

Biologists mapping the human microbiome expected to find new bacteria and viruses, not entities that slip through every ...

Tucking into Christmas leftovers after Boxing Day could make you seriously ill, food safety chiefs have warned.

Between Halloween candy, Thanksgiving pies and holiday cookies, the end of the year is often packed with opportunities to consume sugar. But what happens in your mouth during those first minutes and ...

From saccharin in the 19th century to stevia and monk fruit in the 21st, researchers and the food industry have long sought a sweetener that delivers the taste of sugar without its drawbacks—excess ...