Scientists at the University of Texas at Dallas say microbes in the gut could be a key to reducing pain from sickle cell disease. In a study published last month in Cell Host & Microbe, the UT Dallas ...

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.

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 ...

Scientists have uncovered a surprising strategy plants use to thrive when an essential nutrient—sulfur—is in short supply.

Scientists have discovered that bacteria inside tumors produce a molecule, 2-MiCit, that enhances chemotherapy by damaging ...

Plant microbe 1 Scientists from the Singapore Centre for Environmental Life Sciences Engineering (SCELSE) - a biofilm & microbiome research ...