Pathogens can create sticky situations. When microbes invade the body to cause an infection, often one of their first lines ...

Studies published in Nature Cancer reveal how bacterial presence in head and neck cancers affects treatment response, ...

Certain antibodies employ unusual tactics to keep germs from attaching to cells in our bodies. Their defensive strategies ...

New study reveals that bacteria can survive antibiotic treatment through two fundamentally different "shutdown modes," not ...

Using ribosome engineering (RE), researchers from Shinshu University introduced mutations affecting the protein synthesis ...

Microbes often display cooperative behavior in which individual cells put in work and sacrifice resources to collectively ...

Immune cells that eat bacteria in the body don't stash them in specialized compartments as once thought, but turn them into critical nutrients that build proteins, create energy and keep the cells ...

Cleveland Clinic researchers have discovered that bacteria inside cancerous tumors may be key to understanding why ...

In another, perhaps counterintuitive study, mice that had all their gut bacteria wiped out were protected from gaining as ...

“While it’s relatively easy to grow animal cells for mass food production you need to be able to grow them on something cheap ...