J. Rufus Wallingford, a financial speculator in a 1911 novel Randolph Chester, of whom it was said “he toils not, neither does he spin,” is an exemplar who, in every generation, has followers in real ...

The interaction between a common gene variant and gut microbes may trigger chronic inflammation in ulcerative colitis, new ...

Putnam County announced last month the closure of beaches at Cortlandt Lake and 13 other water bodies due to the presence of ...

Acute gastroenteritis illness, or AGI, commonly referred to as a “stomach bug,” can spread quickly through communities.

Bacteria are lurking on your sponge, your pet’s toys and your tea towels. Here’s what the research says - and how to protect ...

Ghana’s president has launched a special task force to combat rampant illegal gold mining and smuggling that has long plagued the West African nation. John Mahama inaugurated the GOLDBOD Task ...

Scientists have identified a new type of protein in bacteria that could change our understanding of how these organisms ...

It has genes for ribosomes, tRNAs, and mRNAs. These components are the scaffolding of life: the tools by which cells read ...

Because they rely on hosts for a majority of functions, viruses aren’t considered alive. But entities like this one ...

Named entity recognition (NER) is an essential step of interaction extraction (IE) by automatically identifying bacterial entities in the text. In this paper, we propose a method based on language ...

Scientists have discovered a link between bacteria in the mouth and gut and the progression of cognitive decline in Parkinson's disease. Specific changes in these bacteria, known as the microbiome ...

The first bacteria our bodies meet – in the hours after we're born – could protect us from dangerous infections, UK scientists say. They have shown, for the first time, that good bacteria seem ...