Mary Roeloffs is a Forbes breaking news reporter covering pop culture. Almost a dozen people have died this year in the Southeast after contracting a flesh-eating bacteria called Vibrio vulnificus ...

Marine microbes control the flux of matter and energy essential for life in the oceans. Among them, the bacterial group SAR11 accounts for about a third of all the bacteria found in surface ocean ...

Klebsiella pneumoniae, one of the most common bacteria associated with hospital-acquired infections, may be hitching a ride into sterile patient rooms in the food patients eat before entering the ...