Tilling your garden can be helpful in certain situations but harmful in others. Tilling has both benefits and drawbacks when ...

Two groups of bacteria are also on the list: Acinetobacter, which is commonly found in soil and water and can ... Antibiotics kill off bad bacteria, but also good, healthy bacteria in the gut ...

This knowledge is giving us a new way to kill bad bacteria. Antibiotics have been used for three quarters of a century to treat bacterial infections. Evolution is real. And so bacteria have ...

Phages, or bacteriophages, are viruses that kill certain bacteria. They occur naturally all over the world – in the soil, water ... to a phage isn’t as bad as a resistance to an antibiotic ...

But bacteria are ... eating viruses to kill these bacteria. “What we try to do is generate viruses, they’re called phage, that are killers, specific killers of bad bacteria,” says Baylor ...

Does potting soil even go bad? What’s its lifespan ... to let it air dry and kill the bacteria. Then they will combine half of the old with half of the new soil. However, less than 1 percent ...

Further research is needed before the new antibiotic can be trialled in people, but researchers say their study is a proof-of-concept that antibiotics that kill a bad bacteria while sparing good ...