One common pathway by which contaminated water and food spread resistant strains of bacteria is by acting as superhighways that spread the resistant bacteria and the genes that make them resistant. It ...

Sulfur-reducing bacteria of the phylum Desulfobacterota play a crucial role in the global biogeochemical sulfur cycle.

In the ocean, plastic waste collects to form large garbage patches that endanger marine life. This is partly because the synthetic plastic polymers used today can only be broken down biologically—that ...

New research has found that more than 9 in 10 patients with bladder cancer were identified through a noninvasive urine test ...

DNA normally uses four letters. In lab tests, a bacterial enzyme successfully read eight, including four synthetic bases.

A recent study found that many women treated for recurrent UTIs didn't have UTIs at all. Instead, their symptoms were caused ...