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With all the buzz surrounding fermented foods recently, most people probably know that there are "good" bacteria out in the ...

I have written many commentaries on the unsanitary situation that comes from having so many Canadians on the Qualla Boundary. Of course, I am talking about Canadian geese.

Among the objectives of the walk, there was an intriguing scientific objective: The duo swabbed the surface material around ...

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Elaine Power first became interested in studying coprophagy—the practice of eating feces—when she was teaching high school ...

Antibiotic resistance can develop to new antibiotics even before they reach the market, undermining their future ...

American children learn early that not showering regularly is unhygienic. But that’s not necessarily true, according to a ...

Previous studies have shown that poor oral health is linked to major diseases such as cancer, heart disease, diabetes, and ...

Researchers have discovered crucial new information about how microbes consume huge amounts of carbon monoxide (CO) and help reduce levels of this deadly gas.

An analysis of the gut microbiome in women from four African countries provides crucial data for this under-represented ...

The natural world is a finely-tuned balance of biotic (living) and abiotic (nonliving) components that shape our environments. Various biotic factors directly affect processes like population growth, ...