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A study on mice investigating therapeutic food for malnourished children uncovers diverse functions of a newly identified gut ...

Wastewater treatment fails to kill several human pathogens when they hide out on microplastics in the water, reports a new study led by Ingun Lund ...

Experts are warning pre-loved shoppers to be vigilant after a new report revealed clothing can harbour a lot of germs.

Scientists uncover unique bacteria within Gulf of Mexico's coral reefs, revealing insights into coral survival in the ocean’s ...

Some pathogenic microorganisms (bacilli of anthrax, Clostridium perfringens, S. pneumoniae, causative agents of plague and ...

An antibiotic developed some 80 years ago before being abandoned and forgotten could again offer exciting new solutions, this ...

October 2024/Kiel. Seagrass meadows are not only nurseries for fish, coastal protectors and CO2 reservoirs, they are also very effective in reducing the load of pathogens in the surrounding seawater.

A surge of food recalls linked to outbreaks of E. coli, listeria and salmonella have consumers on high alert. Experts discuss ...

This suggests that underlying health factors, as well as nutrition and management, likely play a role in the severity of the ...

Our primary goal was to develop two real-time multiplex polymerase chain reaction (PCR) assays for simultaneous detection of ...