A research team led by UAB researcher David Reverter has discovered the molecular mechanism that describes in detail the ...

Viruses attack nearly every living organism on Earth. To do so, they rely on highly specialized proteins that recognize and ...

Common gut bacteria use protein delivery systems to interact directly with human cells, reshaping how scientists view the ...

One of the most diverse ecosystems on the planet is closer than you think - right inside your mouth. Your mouth is a thriving ecosystem of more than 500 different species of bacteria living in ...

A Dartmouth study finds that molecular hitchhikers living within bacteria can make their hosts extra resistant to medical ...

Antibiotic treatments are losing effectiveness against a range of common bacterial pathogens, including E. coli, K.

University of Toronto researchers have expanded our understanding of bacterial immunity with the discovery of a new protein ...

As a grad student in cell biology, Shaeri Mukherjee was always on the lookout for new ways to fiddle with cells’ internal structures. It was the early 2000s, and Mukherjee was working in Dennis ...

Harvard immunologist Dennis Kasper and his colleagues have found that tiny changes in gut bacteria can flip the immune system from calm to inflamed, even when the microbes look harmless. Their work, ...