The federal government awarded a $1.1 million contract to an Ohio company to conduct a pilot project deploying a technology to kill bacteria and eliminate odors in the sewage-tainted Tijuana River. It ...

In a quiet freshwater pond in Ibaraki Prefecture near Tokyo, researchers have pulled from the water a microscopic giant that ...

In a new study published today in the journal mBio, researchers at the University of Maryland School of Medicine (UMSOM) ...

Officials in Reedley, California said they had tried to warn federal authorities about the possibility of similar labs after ...

McGill researchers have developed a diagnostic system capable of identifying bacteria—and determining which antibiotics can ...

A man arrested in connection with what authorities say was an illegal biological laboratory appeared in federal court in Las ...

In lab tests, researchers discovered that 168 chemicals, including those in pesticides and flame retardants, can be harmful to certain bacteria that live in a healthy gut. This is concerning since ...

Researchers at Baylor College of Medicine report in Science Advances a breakthrough in human norovirus (HuNoV) research.

The FBI and the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department are investigating an alleged illegal biological lab operation found ...

The search for life in space has led astronomers to look everywhere from the surface of Mars to the atmospheres of the most distant exoplanets. Now, scientists have discovered unknown bacteria that ...

Life expectancy in the United States has been rising over many decades, ushering in what experts describe as "an era of unprecedented longevity." This trend raises important questions about how people ...