bacteria
Take a look at these mesmerizing landscapes from the Group of Seven—made of bacteria
A suite of photos by artist Jon Sasaki reveals the microscopic lives on the palettes of some of Canada’s most iconic painters
A link between bacteria and breast cancer?
A new study suggests bacteria could could play a role in how the disease progresses, and maybe one day, how it’s treated.
Using bacteria to extract metals from shale
A Toronto company is betting on a new breed of microscopic miners
Harmless bacteria used to fight drug-resistant microbe
Microbe is deadly to patients with weak immune systems
Will colonizing meteorites and asteroids with bacteria one day save life as we know it?
Panspermia is meant to maintain Earth’s evolutionary path
Doctors aren’t washing their hands
New computer system detects unwashed hands
It’s life, but not as we know it
An unusual microbe shows how little we may still know about life on our own planet, let alone elsewhere
Superbug: meet your maker
Frogs evolved to fight off microbes. They may also provide us with the next class of antibiotics.
Is there anything they can’t do?
In the current issue of Maclean’s, I wrote about a global effort to track all the bacteria that live in the human body—a monumental undertaking, since they outnumber our own cells by ten-to-one. It may gross people out to think we’re literally crawling with bugs, but a growing body of research suggests they’re crucial to our health: by now, microbes have been implicated in everything from periodontitis, to obesity, to premature labour.
Eradicating a bad bacteria
Will we be better off when H. pylori is gone for good?