The researchers used data to investigate natural divisions in bacteria with a goal of determining a viable method for organizing them into species and strains. A photo of the saltern site in Spain ...

For the first time, scientists have defined the bacteria that inhabit multiple sites along the healthy human digestive tract in a large number of individuals. As part of the Human Microbiome Project, ...

Blood cultures, a laboratory test for detecting the presence of bacteria in samples of a patient's blood, are widely used by ...