The trillions of microbes that live in the human gut may play a bigger role in health than previously thought, according to a ...

Plant tissue culture faces contamination issues often tackled with antibiotics, but resistance is rising. This study found ...

Government scientists say infection rates from drug-resistant “nightmare bacteria” have been increasing dramatically.

The trillions of microbes that live in the human gut may play a bigger role in health than previously thought, according to ...

Turning genes on and off is like flipping a light switch, controlling whether genes in a cell are active. When a gene is ...

In the unending war between plants and pathogens, our crops are usually on the defensive. The ubiquitous armies of bacteria, ...

When our immune system reacts, it doesn’t just fight microbes; it also changes the gut environment. This study shows that during inflammation, our body releases long-chain unsaturated fatty acids ...

Edited by Joe Lutkenhaus, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, KS; received April 30, 2024; accepted July 12, 2024 ...

AI designed new bacteriophages that killed E. coli in lab tests, promising advances but raising safety concerns.

AI-guided design of 16 functional bacteriophage genomes offers a path for phage-based therapies against antibiotic-resistant infections.

The work, described in a preprint paper, has the potential to create new treatments and accelerate research into artificially ...

Engineered bacteria reprogram tumor macrophages and direct copper into cancer cells, triggering cell death and systemic immunity without damaging healthy tissue.