Bacteria

Life In Antarctic Lake? It's Everywhere Else

AP | SETH BORENSTEIN | Posted 02.09.2012 | Green

Read More: Unexpected Lifeforms, Lake Vostok Microbes, Antarctica, Video, Microbial Life, Lake Vostok, Science, Underwater Lifeforms, Bacteria, Lake Vostok Antarctica, Ap, Green News

WASHINGTON (AP) — If scientists find microbes in a frigid lake two miles beneath the thick ice of Antarctica, it will illustrate once again that som...

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Lyme Disease Map Shows Where Disease Poses Biggest Threat

AP/The Huffington Post | By HOLLY RAMER | Posted 02.07.2012 | Science

Read More: Video, Tick Lyme Disease, Lyme Disease, Bacteria Lyme, Lyme Disease Map, Ticks, Bacteria, Lyme Map, Science News

CONCORD, N.H. -- Researchers who spent three years dragging sheets of fabric through the woods to snag ticks have created a detailed map they claim co...

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New Study Suggests Surprising Cause Of Obesity

Posted 02.03.2012 | Science

Read More: Mice, Video, Infectious Diseases, Obesity Epidemic, Yale University, Fat, Obesity, Bacteria, Germs, Overweight, Rodents, Science News

By: Rachael Rettner, MyHealthNewsDaily Staff Writer Published: 02/03/2012 09:08 AM EST on MyHealthNewsDaily We've heard obesity can be "sp...

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EPA Proposal Allows 1 in 28 People to Get Sick at U.S. Beaches

Steve Fleischli | Posted 02.01.2012 | Green

Read More: Bacteria, Health, Beaches, Recreation, Epa, Clean Water Act, Environmental Protection Agency, Beach Act, U.S. Beaches EPA, U.S. Beaches EPA Proposal, Green News

EPA has a responsibility to keep our waters healthy to ensure that we are too. Instead, the agency glosses over its own science by ignoring the known risks of getting certain illnesses, like diarrhea, from swimming in contaminated waters

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Treating a World Without Antibiotics?

Stanley M. Bergman | Posted 01.29.2012 | Science

Read More: Antibiotic Resistance, Antibiotics, Bacteria, Antibiotics Resistance, Drug Resistant Bacteria, Science News

Because of the overuse of antibiotics, antibiotic resistance is developing all of the time. With microbial evolution outpacing human invention, a nightmare scenario is possible. And this isn't just science fiction.

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PHOTOS: Beautiful Bacteria Pictures

| Christina Agapakis | Posted 01.17.2012 | Science

Read More: Biology Pictures, Bacteria Pictures, False Color Pictures, Bacteria, Fernan Federici, Bacillus Subtilis, Welcome Image Awards, Microscope Pictures, Science News

Bacteria grow by dividing in half, their population doubling in size as fast as every twenty minutes. In a few short hours, a bacterial culture can go...

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Sharing Absolutely Everything: The Human Imperative

Elizabeth Boleman-Herring | Posted 01.16.2012 | Good News

Read More: Communal Living, Sharing, Microbes, Empathy, Selflessness, Selfishness, Electron Microscope, Bacteria, Biological Diversity, Good News News

From before our first breath, from the moment of conception, we share. It is the fundamental verb of human existence.

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Life's Most Amazing Invisible Secrets

Andy Mannle | Posted 01.11.2012 | Science

Read More: Carbon, Consciousness, Biology, Carbon Dioxide, Living Systems, Bacteria, Lynn Margulis, Mitochondria, Life, Symbiogenesis, Science News

One of my heroes, evolutionary microbiologist Lynn Margulis, died this past Thanksgiving. Here are some of her most surprising, and fascinating revelations

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Antibiotic Resistant Bacteria From the Fukushima Nuclear Accident?

Dr. Douglas Fields | Posted 01.09.2012 | Science

Read More: Antibiotic Resistance, Fukushima, Bacteria, Nuclear Power, Science News

Could the radiation that will be contaminating the environment surrounding the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant for hundreds of years produce bacteria that are resistant to antibiotics?

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Hubris and the Tree of Life

Joseph LeDoux | Posted 01.05.2012 | Science

Read More: Embryology, Aristotle, Philosophy, Neuroscience, Brain, Biology, Charles Darwin, Vertebrates, Psychology, Evolution, Bacteria, Mammals, Book of Genesis, Science News

We are part of a process, not its goal or final state. Just a branch point, a distal twig, on a continuously branching limb of the tree of life. Some may feel this perspective diminishes us. I don't.

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There's A 25% Chance Your Ground Meat Has A Potentially Fatal Bacteria

Posted 12.29.2011 | Food

Read More: Antibiotic Use, Antibiotic Resistance, Ground Meat, Video, Ground Meat Bacteria, Antibiotics, Bacteria, Mark Bittman, Antibiotics in Meat, Food News

Mark Bittman has yet another fascinating column in the New York Times, this time on the prevalence of bacteria in meat. He discusses a study that anal...

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Bacteria That Could Pass As X-Men

| Posted 12.16.2011 | Green

Read More: Video, Bacteria X Men, Bacteria Xmen, Scary Bacteria, Bacteria, Weird Bacteria, Green News

By S.E. Gould (Click here for original article.) 1) The Blob Like many of the X-men, the Blob has gone through several incarnations of chara...

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Music: Food For The Brain

Big Think | Posted 12.12.2011 | Fifty

Read More: Mozart, Brain Development, Brain and Emotions, Cortisol, Music Therapy, Brain Growth, Bacteria, Music, Music and Emotions, Antibodies, Fifty News

Listening to Mozart probably won't make you smarter but music can positively influence your brain in other ways. If you listen to soothing music, for ...

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Seriously, Do We Really Need Health Clubs?

John Blumenthal | Posted 01.29.2012 | Fifty

Read More: Baseball, Stairmaster, Personal Trainer, Zumba, Pilates, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Health Clubs, Plantar Wart, Richard Nixon, High School Gym Class, Locker Room, Chicken Noodle Soup, Torquemada Yard Sale, Bacteria, Ringling Brothers, Albert Einstein, Torture, Fifty News

Even though I'm over fifty, I still groan at the vivid memory of high school gym class which, for me, was an exercise in torture.

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Cell Phones: A Biological Part of You

Matthew Edlund, M.D. | Posted 01.03.2012 | Healthy Living

Read More: Hands, Feculent Bacteria, Human Ecosystem, Hand Washing, Pathogens, Infections, Colds, Cell Phones, Bacteria, Contagion, Preventing-Colds, Centers for Disease Control, Healthy Living Body, Personal Health, Cell Phone Germs, Healthy Living News

Cell phones change economies, communication, education, human brains and inner-human ecology. Treat them with respect -- as biologically part of your hand. Keep them clean.

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FDA Releases The Cause Of The Outbreak

AP | MARY CLARE JALONICK | Posted 12.19.2011 | Denver

Read More: Video, Listeria Outbreak, Cantaloupe, Unsanitary Food Practices, Listeria Monocytogenes, Fda, Bacteria, Jensen Farms, Cantaloupe 2011, Fda Cause of Listeria Outbreak, Multi-State Listeria, Denver News

WASHINGTON — Pools of water on the floor and old, hard-to-clean equipment at a Colorado farm's cantaloupe-packing facility were probably to blam...

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Study Shows Hospital Curtains' Hidden Danger

The Huffington Post | Amanda Chan | Posted 11.26.2011 | Healthy Living

Read More: Hospital Mrsa, Healthy Living Health News, Video, Hospital Curtains Bacteria, Hospital Curtains Mrsa, Curtains, Mrsa, Hospital Curtains Germs, Hospital Curtains, Healthy-Living-Health-News, Enterococcus, Bacteria, Healthy Living News

Those hospital curtains that give privacy to patients could also be harboring drug-resistant bacteria, including the infamous methicillin-resistant st...

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Living Bacteria Billboard Promotes Film

The Huffington Post | Laura Hibbard | Posted 11.09.2011 | Entertainment

Read More: Contagion Film, Marketing, Viral Marketing, Bacteria, Contagion, Advertising, Contagion Movie, Video, Entertainment News

If you've got a weak stomach, you might want to skip this video. Maybe the movie too, since it's reportedly just a tad bit too real. As a cleve...

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The Most Disgusting 'Contagion' Sign Of All

From Petri dish to advertisement | Posted 11.09.2011 | Entertainment

Read More: Steven Soderbergh, Bacteria, Matt Damon, Contagion Sign Bacteria, Steven Soderbergh Contagion, Contagion, Steven-Soderbergh-Contagion, Gwyneth Platrow, Entertainment News

Gross! The producers of the sick new thriller Contagion came up with a creepy way to promote their product. Warner Bros. ...

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Surprising New Dengue Weapon: Vaccinating Mosquitoes With Bacteria To Protect People

HuffingtonPost.com | Lynne Peeples | Posted 10.24.2011 | Green

Read More: Dengue Fever, West Nile Virus, Insecticides, Corrections, Mosquitoes Dengue, Hurricane Irene, Malaria, The Infection Loop, Tropical Disease, Vaccine, Bacteria, Mosquitoes, Video, Green News

Dengue fever is on the rise around the world. As traditional folk dancers teach prevention in India, hospitals in the Philippines desperately add beds...

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Super Bacteria? Fighting Resistance Could Be Trickier Than Thought

HuffingtonPost.com | Catherine Pearson | Posted 09.27.2011 | Healthy Living

Read More: Antibiotic Use, Antibiotic Resistance, Healthy Living Health News, Antibiotics, Bacteria, Antibiotics in Meat, Bacterial Resistance, Video, Healthy Living News

A process thought to hamper antibiotic resistant bacteria, one of the world's most pressing public health problems, might actually make them stronger,...

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In Alaska, a Dirty Fight Over Clean Water

AlaskaDispatch.com | Posted 09.12.2011 | Green

Read More: Environmental Protection Agency, Alaska, Landfills, Fecal Matter, Disease, Washington DC, Green Living, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Justice Department, Bacteria, Unalaska, Green News

A small island fishing community 800 air miles southwest of Anchorage has found itself in a monster of a fight with federal enforcers based more than 4,100 miles away in Washington, D.C.

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What Is Toe Jam?

Neal M. Blitz, D.P.M., F.A.C.F.A.S. | Posted 09.10.2011 | Healthy Living

Read More: Smelly Feet, Hammer Toes, Personal Health, Toe Jam, Toenail Fungus, Fungus, Smelly-Feet, Calluses, Hammertoes, Foot, Feet, Corns, Explained, Dr. Blitz, Tell Me Why, Neal Blitz, Bacteria, Scabies, Smelly Feet Cures, Healthy Living News

Toe jam is common non-medical term used to describe the 'gunk' that accumulates between the toes. Not all toe jam is the same, however -- and it can result in serious medical issues for some and should not be neglected.

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Book Review: Death by China: Confronting the Dragon

Chriss Street | Posted 08.23.2011 | Books

Read More: Death by China, China, Chinese, Cowardly, Yangtze, European Food Safety Administration, Disease, Greg Autry, Re-Claim, Mercury, Predatory, Yuck Factor, Woozy, Bacteria, Imperialism, Food and Drug Administration, Peter Navarro, Dysfunctional, Books News

This highly entertaining book serves as not only a riotous call to arms, but a roadmap for Americans to re-claim the 21st century as their own.

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Keep Your Filthy Hands Off The Subway: Will Tomorrow's Commuters Wear Plastic Mitts?

HuffingtonPost.com | Michael McLaughlin | Posted 11.15.2011 | Weird News

Read More: Metropolitan Transportation Authority, New York City Subway, Subway, Jason Lipton, New York Subway, Laura Baumgartner, Gene Russianoff, Bacteria, Germs, Metromitt, New York City, Weird News News

Step into a New York City subway and it can seem like you're witnessing biological warfare. Riders cough and sneeze all over the place, nauseating sme...

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