A new study from National Institutes of Health scientists and their Thai colleagues shows that a “good” bacterium commonly found in probiotic digestive supplements helps eliminate Staphylococcus ...

Bacillus thuringiensis is a Gram positive, soil-dwelling bacterium. Like all Bacillus species, it is rod-shaped and produces spores. Aside from being a close relative to Bacillus anthracis (the one ...

The popularity of probiotics has seen a remarkable rise recently, largely attributed to their possible health benefits. Among the numerous probiotic varieties, Bacillus coagulans is noteworthy. This ...

To enhance the early detection of novel infectious bacteria that could cause outbreaks of infectious disease and public health emergencies, a team of researchers in Penn State's College of ...

Infections by pathogenic Staphylococcus aureus bacteria cause many tens of thousands of deaths every year, and the threat of antibiotic-resistant strains, including methicillin-resistant S. aureus ...

RICE is such a mainstay of the Malaysian table, from nasi lemak to nasi goreng, that it is hard to imagine a meal without it.

The only way to overcome multidrug-resistant bacteria is to design a drug that bacteria have never encountered. In a new study funded by the São Paulo Research Foundation, scientists are doing just ...

Gram-positive bacteria have thick cell walls. A Gram stain test, which involves a chemical dye, stains the bacterium’s cell wall purple. On the other hand, gram-negative bacteria stain pink instead.