Babies get a lot from their mothers. But babies born by cesarean section don't pass through the birth canal and miss out on the benefits from picking up Mom's microbes on the way out. Researchers ...

Engineers and biochemists have brought their skills together to make it possible for untrained users to confirm contamination in fluids using a biogel test that changes color in the presence of such ...

A novel new test for bacteria in fluids makes it as easy as observing a color change to confirm the presence of disease-causing pathogens, promising much easier diagnostic tests and greater food ...

Your gut microbiome is like a thriving city of 100 trillion microscopic residents, invisible to the naked eye, living in your gut. No gut microbiome is the same – making yours truly one of a kind, ...

A wellplate with pink liquid in a few of its wells. A gloved hand pipettes liquid into the remaining empty wells. The new test eschews wellplates in favor of a handheld luminescence reader. Credit: ...

Swimmers visiting Rehoboth Beach this holiday weekend should be wary about increased fecal bacteria found in the ocean, officials said. A routine bacteria test found the fecal matter in the water near ...

Plant-based milks don’t always stack up nutritionally, especially when it comes to vitamin B2. So researchers in Denmark went ...