So, this is about as small as life can get. Scientists from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and the University of California, Berkeley have captured the first detailed microscopic images of…
The bacteria, C. difficile, is typically found in hospitals, but a study out Wednesday reports a substantial number of people contracted the bug who hadn’t been in a hospital, but…
Two patients died at the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center in a superbug CRE outbreak, caused by two medical scopes that still carried the bacteria even after they were disinfected….
Unless you live in a plastic bubble, germs and bacteria are on every surface you touch. Apparently, even washing your hands promises very little protection; one study revealed 25 percent…
Strange but true fact: Our bodies are made of more bacteria than human cells and contains trillions of microbes (bacteria and fungi). In fact, it’s estimated that the body is…
SPECIAL FROM Grandparents.com “Attention ladies and germs . . . “ It sounds like the opening of a bad comedy routine, but it turns out, those comedians were onto something….
It’s being called the greatest absence of evolution ever reported: sulfur-eating bacteria that live deep in the sea haven’t changed at all in 2.3 billion years, according to a new…
Above the Arctic Circle in the Lyngen Fjord of northern Norway, researchers on the “Helmer Hanssen” are searching for the next generation of antibiotics. In these sea organisms, they hope,…