Bacteria

Characterizing the most virulent versions of MRSA may help researchers to battle the bug with vaccines

Government scientists have developed a biological system to keep microbial fuel producers from poisoning themselves in the process

A pediatric infectious-disease physician has raised the alarm about the epidemic and is taking an unconventional approach to combatting it

Scientists are seeking help from microbes to produce road-ready biofuels

During an archaeological dig in Butrint, Albania, Michigan State University (M.S.U.) anthropologist Todd Fenton was busy classifying human bones by age and sex when he discovered several skeletons that were dramatically different from the others.

Second part of my thinly veiled excuse to research X-men and call it work. The first post can be found here. This is only meant to be a two-parter but I’ll see how I feel on Monday, and whether I can find any more X-men that are as amazing as bacteria.

This idea for a post has been kicking around in my head for a while now. As I’ve been finding blogging hard to get into recently, this should kick-start me back into it by letting me write about comics as well as science.

Many meat and poultry products probably carry drug-resistant bacteria before cooking. Katherine Harmon reports

This is a guest post from a member of the iGEM competition team from Imperial College London. They recently won the iGEM regional championships and will be going to Boston in November to compete for the Worldwide Championships.

New testing methods could prove the FBI’s case against Bruce Ivins--or lead to other suspects

Antibiotic resistance is often seen as a modern phenomenon – an ability generated by bacteria in order to defend against the challenges of modern medicine.

Ever since the discovery and marketing of penicillin in 1928 by Alexander Fleming, bacteria have been developing resistance to antibiotics at an alarming rate.