The fermentation of the beverage allowed science to observe something that until then had been invisible: germs ...

When UNSW Associate Professor Shafagh Waters explains cystic fibrosis (CF) to the children she works with, she asks them to imagine what is happening inside their own bodies. "I tell them to picture ...

New study shows how bacteria adapted a virus-derived injection system to recognize and attach to many different types of ...

Micro-organisms constitute a very antique group of living organisms which appeared on the Earth's surface almost 3000 million years ago.

Florida’s palm trees are being increasingly jeopardized thanks to a disease that’s spreading through the state.

Tuberculosis bacteria survive by hiding in our immune cells. In her PhD research, biologist Salomé Muñoz Sánchez explores how ...

Protein folding helpers such as TRiC and prefoldin (PFD) are crucial for the correct folding of many essential proteins. In a Nature study, researchers from the Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry ...

In my experience of doctors and hospitals, healing is a competition between interpretations of sickness and injury, where the ...

Another hypochondriac explained it to me years ago. He was a good guy. The nicest in the whole psychiatric ward. And then there are the doctor’s questions — the ones they fire off routinely, hastily, ...

In the murky waters of Ushiku-numa, a freshwater pond just northeast of Tokyo, a microscopic drama has been playing out for ...

Stuck in a rut, Ben Jureidini decided to live his life by the gospel of Gwyneth. Bone broth and burnt boxers followed – just ...

In a quiet freshwater pond in Ibaraki Prefecture near Tokyo, researchers have pulled from the water a microscopic giant that ...