“Microplastics are like rafts — a bacteria on its own might not be able to swim down a river, but riding in its biofilm on a tiny bit of plastic it can be disseminated into many different ...

Key questions remain after the publication of a landmark study in The New England Journal of Medicine that found bacterial vaginosis (BV), which affects nearly a third of women worldwide ...

The ability of bacteria to control the biophysical properties of their membrane phospholipids allows them to thrive in a wide range of physical environments. Fatty acid biosynthesis is an energy ...

A common vaginal condition known as bacterial vaginosis (BV) may actually be a sexually transmitted infection (STI), according to researchers. The NHS currently says BV is caused by "a change in ...

Bacterial vaginosis or BV is a condition that affects one in three people with a vagina, and has a high recurrence rate. A new study showed oral antibiotics paired with a topical ointment for male ...

Bacterial vaginosis is most likely a sexually transmitted infection, according to a new study. By Alisha Haridasani Gupta Bacterial vaginosis is a poorly understood infection that affects one in ...

In fact, the study revealed that the proteasome itself constantly produces these peptides as part of its routine activity, and that this production ramps up significantly during bacterial infections.

Bacterial vaginosis, or BV, is currently viewed as a woman’s issue, thus leaving the sexual partner untreated. “I started getting them quite recurrently. I’d go to doctors and get treated ...

This open-label, randomized, controlled trial involved couples in which a woman had bacterial vaginosis and was in a monogamous relationship with a male partner. In the partner-treatment group ...

For fraternal twins who share 50 percent of their genes, this rate drops to around 2 percent. Scientists have long suspected that gut bacteria may influence a person's risk of developing multiple ...