Viruses attack nearly every living organism on Earth. To do so, they rely on highly specialized proteins that recognize and ...

After nearly 40 years of research on how Listeria bacteria manipulate our cells and battle our immune system to cause listeriosis, Daniel Portnoy and his colleagues have discovered a way to turn the ...

Researchers are warning of the "urgent need" to address a growing parasitic population ...

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This article was originally featured on The Conversation. Life and death are traditionally viewed as opposites. But the emergence of new multicellular life-forms from the cells of a dead organism ...

Harvard immunologist Dennis Kasper and his colleagues have found that tiny changes in gut bacteria can flip the immune system from calm to inflamed, even when the microbes look harmless. Their work, ...

Marine animals, such as the extremely simple flatworm Trichoplax, are ideal model organisms for studying the early ...

A new study finds that a trait helping a marine bacterium survive and flourish today may ultimately become its Achilles Heel as ocean conditions continue to shift.

Over the past several years, scientists have repeatedly demonstrated that the cells of various organisms can be repurposed into biological robots, representing stunning advancements in the field of ...

A bizarre bacteria has been discovered with an ability previously thought impossible for its kind. This strange discovery could shine a light on how some of our earliest single-celled ancestors formed ...

Scientists at LSU have patented a novel way to kill cancer cells using staph bacteria, sometimes called the “superbug.” ...

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