A large team of surgeons and organ transplant researchers affiliated with multiple institutions across the U.S. has found an ...

Scientists at Caltech and Princeton University have discovered that bacterial cells growing ... mucus that lines the lungs becomes more concentrated, often causing bacterial infections that ...

In biology textbooks, the endoplasmic reticulum is often portrayed as a distinct, compact organelle near the nucleus, and is commonly known to be responsible for protein trafficking and secretion. In ...

Researchers at the University of Liège (Belgium) have uncovered a previously unknown mechanism that regulates the immune ...

In biology textbooks, the endoplasmic reticulum is often portrayed as a distinct, compact organelle near the nucleus, and is commonly known to be ...

This review focuses on intergenerational and transgenerational epigenetic inheritance in different plants, animal species and humans, presenting the up-to-date evidence and arguments for such effects ...

How do bacteria—harmless ones living in our bodies, or those that cause disease—organize their activities? A new study, ...

In some cases, bacteria — or, rarely, fungi — may cause a sinus infection. The type of sinus infection you have depends on how long it lasts and how often you get it. Symptoms of acute ...

causing infection in our benign bacteria and can contribute to antibiotic resistance for the malign bacteria. "A lot of anti-phage defense systems cause cell death, meaning that the cell self ...

This seems to protect against infection by a range of disease-causing Enterobacteriaceae bugs. The researchers suggest that eating more fibre in our diet will support the growth of good bacteria ...

When first-line antibiotics can no longer be used to treat ... There are several advantages to using phages instead of antibiotics to combat bacterial infections. Phages do not infect human cells.