The American Association for Cancer Research's latest Cancer Progress Report highlights the risk posed by several viral and ...

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So we steam-cleaned her carpet and sent the sucked-up liquid to Micrim Labs. Inside Edition’s Lisa Guerrero has the dirty details on what bacteria the lab found.

Even the microwave oven in your kitchen is not immune to bacteria. The irradiating environment within a microwave oven might seem inhospitable to microbes. But swabs from microwave ovens in ...

Usually, these germs are harmless—if your immune system is healthy and your skin’s protective barrier is intact. aire images//Getty Images Bacteria, fungi, and viruses tend to love warm ...

An article highlights new insights into the PARIS, an immune system that bacteria use to respond to viral infections. Scientists at Montana State University have been studying unique immune ...

In 10 flights over Japan, researchers found a host of bacteria and fungi. These high-altitude germs could help spread disease around the world. By Carl Zimmer Carl Zimmer has written about ...

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That’s because bacteria is more likely to be transferred from wet skin than from dry skin. So make sure you’re also drying hands thoroughly after hitting the sink. I recently flew back from my ...

Antibiotics kill bacteria. However, there has been a lack of new drugs for decades and bacteria are becoming harder to treat, as they evolve resistance to the ones we have. More than a million ...

Scientists from the University of Sheffield have discovered a new sensory capability in bacteria which could transform treatments for bacterial infections. It was previously thought that bacteria ...