Kerry Breen is a news editor at CBSNews.com. A graduate of New York University's Arthur L. Carter School of Journalism, she previously worked at NBC News' TODAY Digital. She covers current events, ...
On the Gulf Coast — where tourism drives the economy and many locals worship fresh seafood — the stakes of the issue are significant.
A bacterium that already lives in most people’s intestines can latch onto per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances and escort them ...
California researchers have identified a possible link between toxin in the gut and increase in cancer cases in people under ...
Warming ocean waters are priming beaches and raw shellfish for Vibrio. Scientists are trying to stay one step ahead.
The Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality team in Biloxi has tested beaches under federal standards for more than ...
Scientists have uncovered a surprising way to influence the bacteria living in our mouths — not by killing them, but by interrupting how they “talk” to each other. Researchers found that dental plaque ...
The system helped fight infection in mice and also showed promising cancer-killing effects.
Emerging research suggests the state of the gut microbiome in early life is linked to colorectal cancer—and that both too ...
Health officials threw some cold water on weekend swim plans Friday, warning that bacteria counts at several popular spots, ...
A pair of recently released reports shed light on the state of California waterways ahead of the Memorial Day weekend.
Living bacteria embedded in coatings could clean wastewater, capture carbon and generate biofuels—but only if they survive ...