After the recent pandemic, our use of disinfectants has increased, but are our efforts to create sterile urban environments backfiring? A new study published in the journal Microbiome has identified ...

They found the air in hospitals and on airplanes contains a diverse but mostly harmless mix of microbes, with only minimal traces of potentially pathogenic species. In both environments, common ...

Researchers used worn face masks and an aircraft HEPA filter as low-cost, noninvasive tools to sample and analyze airborne microbes. The findings show that shared indoor air is dominated by harmless, ...