Can a capsule of healthy gut bugs change the future of obesity treatment? New findings from the University of Auckland’s Liggins Institute suggest it might. Eight years ago, 87 obese adolescents took ...

A tiny hydrogel pill filled with bacteria may soon offer a faster, noninvasive way to detect intestinal bleeding. Researchers have developed a swallowable biosensor, called MagGel-BS, that uses ...

Drugs that act against bacteria are mainly assessed based on how well they inhibit bacterial growth under laboratory ...

The identification, sorting and export of single bacterial cells rather than just populations of them has long been incredibly complex, expensive and often just does not work without damaging the ...