All batches sold in the past six months have been pulled from shelves THOUSANDS of eyeliners sold in Boots over the past six months are being urgently recalled. Shoppers are being warned not to use ...

As drug-resistant infections continue to rise, researchers are looking for new antimicrobial strategies that are both effective and sustainable. One emerging approach combines nanotechnology with ...

University of Houston microbiologists discovered that a rare bacterium in NASA clean rooms can “play dead” to survive extreme sterilization conditions. The study revealed the microbe’s unique ability ...

HOUSTON — Houston has found a problem. NASA’s clean rooms, where spacecraft bound for Mars are assembled, might harbor stealthy stowaways. Scientists have discovered that a bacterium living in these ...

A warning has been issued over a contaminated face cream from popular brand sold at Boots which has been recalled over dangerous bacteria. Shoppers and customers at Boots have been warned over the ...

The Office for Product Safety and Standards (OPSS) has published a product recall over a skincare product, after it was deemed to present a "microbiological risk." In the notice, it describes the item ...

Developing air filters with biocidal ability is important to protect the public from infectious respiratory diseases. A simple spray-coating approach was devised to fabricate antimicrobial air filters ...

After a seemingly endless pandemic, we’ve all become a tad obsessed with scrubbing, sanitizing, and disinfecting our urban environments. But as we buckle up and venture into the new normal, a ...

After the recent pandemic, our use of disinfectants has increased, but are our efforts to create sterile urban environments backfiring? A new study published in the journal Microbiome has identified ...

ABSTRACT: Nanotechnology is a rapidly growing field in biomedical engineering with references to efficiency, safety, and cost-effective approaches. Herein, the objective of this study was to examine ...