PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) – A research team led by Washington State University has discovered a phenomenon in which some of the world’s deadliest bacteria feed on human blood. The researchers found that ...

Some of the world's deadliest bacteria appear to have a taste for human blood, a new study has found. Researchers have called this phenomenon "bacterial vampirism." It offers new insights into the ...

The connecting theme is inflammation. Inflammation is associated with many diseases, from Alzheimer’s disease, to diabetes, arthritis and strokes. Inflammation is a general term of the ‘switching on’ ...

They're calling it “bacterial vampirism." E. coli and other species crave human blood serum as a food source, a recent experiment revealed. Reading time 2 minutes Eat your heart out, A24: Some ...

Those aren't blueberries in a bowl of breakfast cereal. They're bacteria growing on blood platelets. In a recent study, researchers with Canadian Blood Services intentionally contaminated platelets ...

CLEVELAND --(October 16, 2001)-- Doctors at University Hospitals of Cleveland released the results of an investigation of a new method to detect bacterial contamination in blood platelets at the ...

Scientists at Weizmann Institute, Hebrew University and Houston's Baylor College of Medicine say patients with more bacteria ...

Drugs given to the whole body can be too much of a shotgun approach, damaging cells that aren’t meant to be targeted. A new study has found that cloaking drugs inside red blood cells could help guide ...

Blood poisoning is still fatal in more than 50% of cases, but can be cured if treated at an early stage. The highest priority is therefore to act quickly. For this reason, doctors usually administer ...

BYU professors Aaron Hawkins, Richard Robison, Adam Woolley and William Pitt created a rapid detection test used to find antibiotic resistant bacteria in blood. (Claire Moore/BYU Photo) BYU professors ...