When Typhoid Mary died in 1938, in medical exile on a tiny New York island, she took untold numbers of Salmonella typhi to her grave. No one knew how the bacteria managed to thrive and not kill her.

Bacterial metabolites queuine and preQ1 have been found to directly regulate protein synthesis in human cells, promoting or ...

A recent study published in Cell Host and Microbe provides a detailed look at how skin bacteria are shared—and not shared—among family members, challenging long-held assumptions about the dynamics of ...

Some things just go together in your belly: peanut butter and jelly, salt and pepper, bacteria and bacteria-eating viruses. For the bacterial species that inhabit your gut, there's a frenzy of viruses ...

A new study by researchers at the VIB-UGent Center for Medical Biotechnology and collaborators demonstrates how a protein linked to the human immune system lures and traps HIV-1 and herpes simplex ...

There are trillions of microorganisms in the human gut, many of which serve important functions. These microbes can help us digest food, absorb nutrients, and they express microbial genes and proteins ...

A blood sample drawn from a sickle cell disease patient on March 8, 2024, at Cook Children's Hematology and Oncology in Fort Worth. Sickle cell disease stems from an inherited gene mutation that warps ...

In a growing global trend, bacteria have evolved new ways to maneuver around medical treatments for a variety of infections. The rising antibiotic resistance crisis poses a significant public health ...