What's in a name? A lot, actually. For the scientific community, names and labels help organize the world's organisms so they can be identified, studied, and regulated. But for bacteria, there has ...

For the first time, scientists have defined the bacteria that inhabit multiple sites along the healthy human digestive tract in a large number of individuals. As part of the Human Microbiome Project, ...

The researchers used data to investigate natural divisions in bacteria with a goal of determining a viable method for organizing them into species and strains. A photo of the saltern site in Spain ...