A new study reveals how bacteria in the gut can help determine whether the amino acid asparagine from the diet will feed ...

An axolotl (Ambystoma mexicanum) swims in a tank at the Center for Regenerative Therapies at the Technical University in Dresden, Germany. Antimicrobial peptides are among the most promising ...

Weightlessness has the potential to enhance a regular virus and increase its ability to kill stubborn bacteria. In an ...

A newly identified metabolite in human feces improves immunotherapy and could radically change the treatment of lung cancer.

Magnetic soft robots deliver and release tens of millions of probiotic bacteria with timed control, disrupt tumor spheroids in vitro, and demonstrate a potential strategy for targeted cancer treatment ...

Let’s say it’s 2036, and scientists are working on a new class of drugs. Today, for instance, pharmaceutical companies use ...

For billions of years, viruses and bacteria have been embroiled in an arms race. In response to constant attacks by viruses known as bacteriophages—more commonly called "phages"—bacteria evolve new ...

Researchers have discovered that a key bacterial protein, CsrA, gathers in a droplet-like structure inside cells to control when and how bacteria activate their disease-causing genes. This newly ...

Sukrit Silas and his colleagues at Gladstone Institutes and UC San Francisco discovered that a well-known defense system in some bacteria can kill the cell as a last resort if viruses try to thwart it ...