Live bacteria from the digestive system can travel directly into the brain when the intestinal barrier is weakened. This ...

The gut bacterium Bacteroides fragilis has long presented researchers with a paradox. It has been associated with colorectal cancer, yet it also lives quite happily in most healthy people. A study by ...

Learn how bacteria inside marine snow may dissolve shell minerals and influence how the ocean stores carbon.

Scientists have uncovered a new explanation for how swimming bacteria change direction, providing fresh insight into one of biology’s most intensively studied molecular machines. Bacteria move through ...

Groundbreaking Data Announced during Poster Presentations at Alzheimer's Association International Conference 2021 and Being Published in Upcoming August Issue of Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease ...

Humans have long had a love-hate relationship with bacteria. While there are bacterial strains that humans cannot live without, such as those that help us digest our food and bolster our immune ...

A landmark study suggests bacteria in kidney stones are not just passengers but hidden architects of this agonising condition. What do these microbes mean for future treatment? Kidney stones are ...

Basic, acidic, basic again: for pathogenic bacteria such as Salmonella, the human digestive tract is a sea of change. So how do the bacteria manage to react to these changes? A team of researchers has ...

For doctors in training, death becomes a familiar part of hospital life—but every so often, the loss of one patient changes everything. Scientia Associate Professor Natalia Castaño Rodríguez was a ...

Now scientists in Japan believe they may have discovered an important reason why some constipation treatments do not work.