Identification of microbes joins together the discipline of microbiology with the study of infectious diseases. Methods of reliable and accurate microbial identification are valuable to a wide range ...

Scientists commonly use bacteria as tiny factories that can produce molecules for uses ranging from drug development to ...

A simple urine test may help identify children at risk for autism sooner than current assessments—opening the door for ...

A new advance in animal husbandry involving a popular aquarium fish should speed the pace of discovery in laboratory studies ...

Elevated gut microbe metabolites may distinguish children with autism, paving the way for a non-invasive urine test and a new ASD subtype linked to microbiome.

Food sensitivity tests are not currently considered a reliable or accurate method of diagnosing food sensitivities. The American Academy of Allergy, Asthma, & Immunology (AAAAI) does not endorse home ...

A nuclear stress test, also called myocardial perfusion imaging (MPI) or a thallium stress test, uses a radioactive tracer to show how blood flows through your heart muscles during exercise and at ...

In this Perspective, Banerjee, Dasgupta and van der Heijden discuss how intensive agricultural practices can lead to the taxonomic, physiological, genetic and functional homogenization of microbial ...

Dr Robert Koch was a pivotal figure in the golden age of microbiology. It was the German bacteriologist who discovered the bacteria that causes anthrax, septicaemia, tuberculosis and cholera, and his ...

A bacterium that already lives in most people’s intestines can latch onto per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances and escort them ...

TRAnsmission Clustering of Strains (TRACS) is a versatile and highly scalable computational tool that infers strain-level transmission of microorganisms within a host population using metagenomic or ...