Dozens of new discoveries reveal that defenses evolved by bacteria and viruses billions of years ago still define our own ...

Scientists have uncovered a surprising twist in how bacteria share genes—including those that spread antibiotic resistance.

A joint research team led by Professor Eijiro Miyako of the Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (JAIST), in collaboration with Daiichi Sankyo Co., Ltd. and University of Tsukuba, has ...

The secret to your body's cancer-fighting power lies in the bacteria in your gut. A team of 40 scientists at 3 hospitals has identified 11 bacterial strains which activated the immune system and ...

Scientists generally agree that eukaryotes, the domain of life whose cells contain nuclei and that includes almost all multicellular organisms, originated from a process involving the symbiotic union ...

Embryos can eliminate bacterial infections before developing an immune system by using epithelial cells to ingest and destroy bacteria through actin-dependent phagocytosis. This mechanism, observed in ...

Antimicrobial resistance - when bacteria and fungi defend themselves against the drugs design to kill them - is an urgent threat to global public health, according to the Centers for Disease Control ...

A research team has discovered a previously unknown mechanism by which the immune system fights bacterial infections. The scientists found that a specific protein, the chloride channel PACC1, is ...

Certain chemical compounds can disable the bacterial immune systems that protect them from viruses, making the bacteria vulnerable to infection. Scientists at Indiana University have discovered a ...

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