Drawing on his love of fly-fishing, he developed a balloon catheter that removes blood clots from patients’ limbs in a ...

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Dr. Julie Hunt reveals how to keep your kitten healthy and happy.

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — Former Tennessee football player Inky Johnson announced Monday that he was given full health clearance after his battle with a bacterial infection he encountered towards the end of ...

Move over, colonoscopies — researchers report in ACS Sensors that they’ve developed a sensor made of tiny microspheres packed with blood-sensing bacteria that detect markers of gastrointestinal ...

Scientists in Seoul have uncovered 15 gut bacterial species linked to coronary artery disease, showing that microbes can influence heart health far beyond digestion. Their findings reveal how shifts ...

Beneath the ocean’s surface, bacteria have evolved specialized enzymes that can digest PET plastic, the material used in bottles and clothes. Researchers at KAUST discovered that a unique molecular ...

To build a spacecraft, you need an extremely clean construction zone. That’s essential if you’re sending a robot to another world to search for signs of microscopic alien life. One wouldn’t want to ...

“General Hospital” star Kirsten Storms has revealed she will undergo surgery because of a brain aneurysm. Storms, who already was on a break from the soap opera, says in a post online that the ...

Some bacterial-infecting viruses use ‘sponges’ to mop up defence molecules, but bacteria can fight back by responding when a sponge captures decoy molecules. Read the paper: A miniature CRISPR–Cas10 ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. Infection rates in the U.S. have surged because of a drug-resistant “super bug,” according to the CDC Medical ...