Stanford chemist Lynette Cegelski and her team discovered a new form of bacterial cellulose, a finding that could shed light on new ways to fight bacterial infections.
Doctors desperately need new tools to combat bacterial infections — battling bacteria that have developed resistance to existing antibiotics is particularly problematic. Part of the …
The community of bacteria living inside our own guts is about as local an ecosystem as we’re likely to find. So you’d think navel-gazing biologists …
Imagine you’re thrown into wild ocean waters, battered by waves until you can’t tell which way is up. Your only chance of survival is to …
Trends like the paleo diet and probiotic supplements attest to the popular idea that in industrial societies, our digestion has taken a turn for the …
It’s a fact that has opened many a press release: The human body is made of more bacterial cells than human ones. (The ratio by …
