Two water departments have advised residents In Los Angeles against drinking tap water due to potential contamination concerns from the ongoing wildfires. The risk of chemicals and pathogens entering ...

An interdisciplinary research team led by the Leibniz-HKI in Jena has discovered a new group of bioactive natural compounds in pathogenic bacteria of the genus Pandoraea: pandorabactins. They enable ...

Scientists have discovered that bacteria can create something like memories about when to form strategies that can cause dangerous infections in people, such as resistance to antibiotics and bacterial ...

Occupationalhazards.com is launching a new Laboratory Safety/IH Column written by Dave Gallup, CEO of Environmental Microbiology Laboratory Inc. (EMLab), a leading commercial indoor air quality ...

The study of iron-oxidizing bacteria in hydrothermal settings reveals a dynamic interplay between microbial metabolic strategies and geochemical processes. These bacteria, which convert soluble Fe(II) ...

Researchers have discovered peptide factors that function in the shoot and root systems to transport iron into the root nodules colonized by nitrogen-fixing bacteria. Moreover, these peptide factors ...