Scientists blended one sample, split it, and shipped it out. What came back exposed a problem the whole industry shares.

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Food sensitivity tests are not currently considered a reliable or accurate method of diagnosing food sensitivities. The American Academy of Allergy, Asthma, & Immunology (AAAAI) does not endorse home ...

In this Perspective, Banerjee, Dasgupta and van der Heijden discuss how intensive agricultural practices can lead to the taxonomic, physiological, genetic and functional homogenization of microbial ...

Dr Robert Koch was a pivotal figure in the golden age of microbiology. It was the German bacteriologist who discovered the bacteria that causes anthrax, septicaemia, tuberculosis and cholera, and his ...

In Bacillus subtilis, wall teichoic acids sustain rod shape by filling nanoscale pores in the cell wall. The presence of wall teichoic acids limits the activity of PBP1, a cell wall synthase that ...