Groundwater contamination poses a significant threat to public health and environmental sustainability. Recent advances in simulation–optimization models have enhanced our ability to identify ...

Clinical bacteriology relies on the ability to identify cultured isolates. However, unknown isolates are common in hospital settings. Now, researchers at the University of Basel, have established a ...

In a study out this month, Swiss researchers say they genetically sequenced dozens of previously unknown bacterial species that were found in patient samples. While many of these novel bacteria might ...

Unknown germs are a common occurrence in hospitals. Researchers at the University of Basel have spent many years collecting and analyzing them. They have identified many new species of bacteria, some ...

Out of 61 analyzed bacteria, 35 were previously unknown. The researchers classified the remaining 26 strains as hard to identify: either their genome sequences had only been added to databases ...

Bacteria in space, beware. New technology to monitor and identify bacteria is in the works. Dr. George E. Fox and Dr. Richard Willson, researchers on the National Space Biomedical Research Instituteís ...