Even if you know instinctively that your kitchen sponge can get pretty nasty, the numbers still might shock you: 54 billion bacteria per cubic centimeter (yes, billion with a B) can be found on a ...

At ETH Zurich, scientists from many different fields are working on something that seems straight out of science fiction.

Gut bacteria are known to be a key factor in many health-related concerns. However, the number and variety of them is vast, ...

Porous materials have a wide range of applications due to their capacity to act as filters, or lightweight structural ...

An experiment in lab mice found that certain human gut bacteria can absorb PFAS, commonly called "forever chemicals," until they are excreted, new study finds.

If an intestinal inhabitant such as the bacterium Escherichia coli (E. coli) becomes resistant to many antibiotics, it can ...

From fecal transplants to phage cocktails, scientists reveal how gut viruses could unlock precision medicine for digestive diseases and beyond.

Bacteria can be ruthless. A new study has shown that when their survival is threatened because of food scarcity, they will ...

July arrives with a quiet sprawl of exhibitions that ask different questions: about memory, language, loss and the shape of ...

Mapping how proteins change shape is vital but slow. Now, a new method combines AI (AlphaFold2) with experimental data to ...