UF Health Cancer Institute researchers have discovered a small compound produced naturally by gut bacteria that doubled the ...

Dealing with an infection isn't as straightforward as simply killing the pathogen. The body also needs to carefully steer and ...

The mucosal surfaces that line the body are embedded with defensive molecules that help keep microbes from causing ...

On the ISS, viruses can still infect bacteria, but the process slows and pushes both organisms to evolve along different ...

A toxin secreted by cholera bacteria can inhibit the growth of colorectal cancer without causing any measurable damage to the ...

Among healthy adults, inhaling wood smoke for 2 hours negatively impacted the lung microbiome by raising the amount of ...

Respiratory infections are among the leading causes of illness and death in the elderly, driven by immune aging, chronic ...

The International Space Station (ISS) is a closed ecosystem, and the biology inside it — including its microbial residents — ...

A 2022 study out of Griffith University in Australia found that nose picking can usher Chlamydia pneumoniae, bacteria that ...

Viruses that infect bacteria can still do their job in microgravity, but space changes the rules of the fight.

In a new study, terrestrial bacteria-infecting viruses were still able to infect their E. coli hosts in near-weightless ...

A new single cell-based screening tool evaluates how well antibiotics kill bacteria and may help researchers determine which ...