Life span: It depends­—it’s time to toss a loofah when its color looks odd, it smells strange, or you see mold growing in it, ...

Medically reviewed by Ashley Baumohl, RD L-glutamine, also known as glutamine, is an amino acid. Amino acids are organic ...

With COVID in retreat (thanks to highly effective vaccines), the three infectious diseases causing public health officials ...

A pink or reddish tint in mucus means there’s blood present. This often happens when the nasal tissues are irritated, dry or ...

Researchers explored how Vibrio cholerae bacteria cause intense gut contractions through immune system activation, ...

Within the human digestive tract are trillions of bacteria from thousands of different species. These bacteria form ...

Viruses cause widespread disease in humans and animals and driving periodic outbreaks and global epidemics. Over the past century, viral infections such as ...

Dangerous strains of E. coli bacteria can infiltrate the food supply through many different routes, experts explain.

Weizmann Institute researchers have developed a new way to track the culprit – giant viruses – and identify their traces in specific types of tiny algae that they attack.

Researchers at the John Innes Centre have discovered that the capacity of bacteria to spread disease in plants is more extensive than known before. Using Pseudomonas syringae, they found that the ...

In a new study, Weizmann Institute of Science researchers reveal a bacterial immune system that thwarts the phages’ plot by attaching a small protein molecule to their tails. The components of this ...