According to the CDC, every year, about 9.9 million Americans suffer from foodborne illnesses acquired at home. When we get ...

While spoiled food has a foul taste, certain expired foods can actually become deadly. These are some of the foods that are ...

A newly discovered virus hiding inside a common gut bacterium could help explain one of medicine’s long-standing mysteries: why a microbe found in both healthy people and cancer patients is linked to ...

Transposable elements have proliferated in the bacterium Enterococcus faecium, altering its metabolism and genome structure.

A DNA analysis of pathogens from a pre-Hispanic mummy revealed the bacterium that causes strep throat was present in the ...