Overuse of antibiotics have led to drug-resistant bacteria. As people find they cannot gain access to the H1N1 vaccine, and fear builds, people are wondering about similar hand sanitizer overuse.

You might think you take a shower to get clean, but in reality, you might be getting a faceful of germs instead, according to a study released Monday by the University of Colorado, Boulder.

The Lost Orphan Mine below the Grand Canyon hasn't produced uranium since the 1960s, but radioactive residue still contaminates the area. Cleaning the region takes an expensive process that is only done in extreme cases, but Judy Wall, a biochemistry professor at the University of Missouri College of Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources, is researching the use of sulfate-reducing bacteria to convert toxic radioactive metal to inert substances, a much more economical solution.

US Marshals entered the production facility of Clarcon Labs in Roy, UT and confiscated all of their Clarcon products stock, and ingredients. This is a strange story, not because some sort of issue is occurring with these products, but because the FDA sent federal marshals in.

High-throughput sequencing has turned biologists into voracious genome readers, enabling them to scan millions of DNA letters, or bases, per hour. When revising a genome, however, they struggle, suffering from serious writer's block, exacerbated by outdated cell programming technology. Labs get bogged down with particular DNA sentences, tinkering at times with subsections of a single gene ad nauseam before moving along to the next one.

Bacteria in the gut of the Anopheles gambiae mosquito inhibit infection of the insect with Plasmodium falciparum, the parasite that causes malaria in humans, according to researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

A new study reveals the importance of adenylylation in the regulation of cell signaling from bacteria to higher organisms.

A young, vibrant 20-year-old model, and former Miss World from Brazil. What would require her to have her hands and feet amputated? Septicemia, that's what.

Researchers at North Carolina State University and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have produced the first link between a species of bacteria most commonly found in sheep and human illness.

Scientists have discovered a new way for bacteria to transfer toxic genes to unrelated bacterial species, a finding that raises the unsettling possibility that bacterial swapping of toxins and other disease-aiding factors may be more common than previously imagined.

A new study shows that the current tuberculosis vaccine induces protective immunity against nine strains of the bacteria in mice indicating that strain-specific resistance may be uncommon. The researchers report their findings in the November 2008 issue of the journal Infection and Immunity.