An international collaboration has achieved an important breakthrough in understanding the genetic mechanisms that allow ...

Food borne pathogens like salmonella are responsible for billions of dollars in losses to the U.S. economy and serious gastrointestinal illnesses that can land some people in the hospital.

When Kostas Konstantinidis proved that many bacteria—like plants and animals—are organized into species, he upended a ...

Shigella infection can cause severe discomfort in humans, emphasizing the need for mechanisms to understand it. With new technologies and animal models, you can see how far life science researchers ...

We all know how it goes —cats are usually the rulers of the house. It doesn't matter you adopted them from a shelter or found ...

The towels we dry ourselves with get a lot of use and pick up a lot of microbes along the way. But how long should you wait before throwing ...