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“Beauty is an iron mine,” once remarked the Australian mining magnate, Gina Reinhart. She was talking about a precious resource, but iron is also profoundly important to living organisms: from bacteria and fungi, to mammals like us.

Some 1.27 million people died in 2019 directly as a result of infection because the bacteria causing the infection were resistant to the drugs designed to kill them, according to a recent study in The Lancet; overall, antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is estimated to have contributed directly or indirectly to the…

Tests found more than 10% of sampled products resistant to antibiotic used to treat serious illnesses in humans

Bacteria cause a disease with symptoms similar to leaf blight

Viruses can change your scent to make you more attractive to mosquitoes, new research in mice finds

Release of ‘potentially hazardous bacteria’ could affect China and India, say scientists

NEW YORK: In a Caribbean mangrove forest, scientists have discovered a species of bacteria that grows to the size and shape of a human eyelash. These cells are the largest bacteria ever observed, thousands of times bigger than more familiar bacteria such as Escherichia coli.

Two Australian children are hospitalised with rare cases of diphtheria of the throat. So, what is diphtheria? How is it treated? And how important is vaccination?

Botox is a natural, purified protein that relaxes the muscle when injected. The relaxation is targeted to the muscles in the face, which fades away wrinkle, scowl or knit the brows leaving residual wrinkles. Controlling these actions has the effect of preventing the formation of wrinkles or folds and makes…