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Samples taken from China's Tiangong space station contained a new, mysterious microbe that doesn't exist on Earth, researchers say.

Mysterious Bacteria Not Found on Earth Are Growing on China’s Space Station

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A new research consortium has found not only that brain fungi or bacteria cause some dementia cases, but also that it can be reversed.

Some Cases of Dementia Can Be Cured, Researchers Say, Because They’re Caused by Fungus and Bacteria in Brain

By Noor Al-Sibai

The scientists edited to the bacteria to prove which enzyme it used to degrade PET plastics into bioavailable carbon.

Scientists Gene Hack Bacteria That Breaks Down Plastic Waste

By Frank Landymore

A common bacteria can easily manipulate the enzymes present in blood supplies to turn it into a universal donor type.

Scientists Intrigued by Bacteria That Turns Any Blood Into Universal Donor Type

By Victor Tangermann

The International Space Station has long been known to be gross, and according to a new study, it has bacteria mutating into something alien.

Mutant Bacteria Discovered Aboard International Space Station

By Noor Al-Sibai

Researchers gene-hacked a strain of bacteria to turn wasteful polyethylene plastic into a spider silk-like material as strong as Kevlar.

Scientists Gene-Hack Bacteria to Turn Waste Plastic Into Kevlar-Like Spider Silk

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Scientists Intrigued by Bacteria That Devour Waste Plastic

Scientists Intrigued by Bacteria That Devour Waste Plastic

By Victor Tangermann

Four patients infected with anthrax after eating horse meat escape a Siberian hospital, panicking local officials who send out an alert.

Russia Says Patients Infected With Deadly Bacteria Have Escaped

By Sharon Adarlo

There's nothing like ocean spray gently caressing your face as you take a beachside stroll — quite literally, because it's actually full of bacteria.

The Refreshing Spray of the Ocean Is Loaded With Sewage Bacteria, Scientists Find

By Noor Al-Sibai

The water supply on the International Space Station is teeming with bacteria, so scietnists are trying to figure out what that means for astronaut health.

Study: Space Station Drinking Water Is Teeming With Bacteria

By Dan Robitzski

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced it's investigating a rare but deadly bacterial infection in the United States.

CDC Warns of Outbreak of Deadly Bacteria

By Tony Ho Tran

Bacteria could provide us with a far more effective and green method of extracting precious metals from used electric car batteries.

Bacteria Could Allow Us to Recycle Electric Car Batteries

By Victor Tangermann

A team of scientists built a bacteria's genetic code from scratch and, after years of improvements, got it to reproduce just like the real thing.

Scientists Engineer Synthetic Bacteria That Multiplies Like the Real Thing

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists have managed to program data into the DNA of living bacteria for the first time, allowing the data to be passed on to the next generation.

Scientists Successfully Store Data Inside DNA of Living Bacteria

By Victor Tangermann

Thousands of people in northwest China have caught a bacterial disease after a leak caused an outbreak at a biopharmaceutical last year, CNN reports.

Thousands Infected by Bacteria After Leak at Chinese Pharmaceutical Factory

By Victor Tangermann

Researchers in Japan say bacteria could survive on the outside of a spacecraft for the entire duration of a trip to Mars.

Scientists: Bacteria Could Survive Trip to Mars on Outside of Spacecraft

By Jon Christian