An ancient bacterial protein known as “flagellin” signals to our neurons in our gut when we’re full, directly showing how our ...

Researchers have discovered a novel gut-brain sensory circuit in mice where specialized colonic cells sense bacterial flagellin and rapidly suppress feeding via the vagus nerve. This "neurobiotic ...

Bacteria commonly found in the human gut could potentially be used to gather up PFAS and carry them out as waste, researchers suggest in a study published this week in Nature Microbiology. “I ...

Warnings of high bacteria levels from public health officials have begun popping up in various states coast to coast.

HIGHLANDS -- A beach in Monmouth County is under a water quality advisory on June 24 due to high levels of fecal bacteria discovered in a section of Sandy Hook Bay. Health officials collected ...

With genetic tweaks, E. coli turned 92 percent of broken-down plastic into acetaminophen, charting a path to upcycle plastic waste sustainably.

Sea spiders living near deep-sea methane seeps appear to cultivate and eat bacteria on their exoskeletons ...

Medtech Products is recalling five lots of its Little Remedies Honey Cough Syrup for bacterial contamination. The food-borne illness causes gastrointestinal symptoms, which can be mild in healthy ...

A popular children's cough syrup brand, "Little Remedies" Honey Cough Syrup, is being voluntarily recalled due to contamination with a bacteria that poses a si ...

SEASIDE PARK -- A bayfront beach was closed June 18 after numerous waste tests showed high levels of fecal bacteria contamination, according to state environmental officials.

This suggests that bacterial proteins – or drugs modelled after them – could someday block the earliest signs of Alzheimer’s. What’s more, the benefits may extend beyond Alzheimer’s disease.