Body odor is a a natural phenomenon caused by the breaking down of sweat by bacteria on the skin. Body odor is not always unpleasant, rather it is unique to each person. These odours aren't random; ...

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Marine viruses deploy a sophisticated Trojan horse maneuver that enables them to dismantle the energy systems of ocean bacteria and use the breakdown products for self-replication. This finding comes ...

Potential treatments for one of the world's most dangerous hospital superbugs have been found in a surprising location—hospital toilets. An international team of researchers led by the University of ...

It’s a home cook’s nightmare: You open the fridge ready to make dinner and realize the meat has spoiled. You have to throw it out, kicking yourself for not cooking it sooner. According to the USDA, a ...

Escherichia coli (E. coli), a type of bacteria commonly found in the human gut, could spread as quickly as swine flu, new research suggests. For the first time, researchers at the Wellcome Sanger ...

Oct 31 (Reuters) - Tiny viruses that only infect and kill bacteria can help treat deadly antibiotic-resistant bloodstream infections with Staphylococcus aureus, results from a mid-stage trial suggest.

Researchers used paths of artificial sugar to study how bacteria sense their environment while forming communities. Red and green show two different chemical signals inside the bacteria. The bacterium ...

Common causes of shortness of breath include physical deconditioning, obesity, anxiety, asthma, heart failure, heart attack, COPD, and pneumonia. However, feeling out of breath when walking short ...

eSpeaks host Corey Noles sits down with Qualcomm's Craig Tellalian to explore a workplace computing transformation: the rise of AI-ready PCs. Matt Hillary, VP of Security and CISO at Drata, details ...

A petri dish full of dead bacteria isn’t usually cause for celebration. But for Stanford’s Brian Hie it was a game-changer in his efforts to create synthetic life. The perpetrator was a type of virus ...

Some microbes can be quite clingy. Staphylococcus aureus, a bacterial species responsible for staph infections, latches onto human skin with one of the strongest biological bonds ever recorded, ...