Bacteria in the human gut can directly deliver proteins into human cells, actively shaping immune responses. A consortium led ...
The human body has always been crowded with microscopic passengers, from bacteria to viruses and fungi. Over the past two ...
Researchers find obelisks, mysterious RNA molecules in human bacteria that challenge our understanding of viruses and ...
Learn how chemicals released by gut microbes end up in exhaled breath, and how researchers used those signals to identify ...
Scientists are increasingly convinced that the microbes coating our teeth and tongue are doing far more than causing cavities ...
Bacteria uses multiple defense mechanisms to survive in the host body. Shigella bacteria, that causes colitis, disable multiple host defense pathways using three specialized effector proteins, as ...
“The UN estimates that, by 2050, common bacterial infections could kill more people than cancer,” says Arnold Mathijssen, a biophysicist at the University of Pennsylvania who studies how active ...
Whether in the human body or on surfaces, bacteria protect themselves from outside attackers using biofilms. Physicist ...
Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS)—the so-called “forever chemicals”—have long been known to accumulate in the human body, raising alarms due to links with decreased fertility, cardiovascular ...