Your gut harbors trillions of microbes which live in precarious harmony with your immune system. When that harmony is upset, ...

It sounds like something from a science fiction or perhaps even a horror story. Space stations always seem like almost clinical environments that are clean and free of any bacteria. However, this is ...

A mutation previously linked to skin disorders like psoriasis may also play a surprising role in gut health, according to new ...

For billions of years, bacteria have waged an ongoing arms race against viruses, evolving many defense mechanisms against the ...

Scientists at The University of Texas at Austin have developed a revolutionary gene-editing method using bacterial retrons ...

Some genetic disorders—such as cystic fibrosis, hemophilia and Tay Sachs disease—involve many mutations in a person's genome, ...

In a groundbreaking study, scientists have discovered more than 100 new human viruses in 252 different gut microbes, ...

Chelsie E. Armbruster, PhD, associate professor of microbiology and immunology, recently received $3.75 million from the National Institutes of Health to study how polymicrobial communities form ...

It's unclear why colon cancer cases have doubled in people under 55 over the past two decades, a staggering rise that has alarmed doctors and cancer researchers. But part of the story could be ...

Disinfectants such as bleach, acids, phenols, and alcohols are important weapons against infectious diseases. During the COVID-19 pandemic, as the coronavirus ran rampant across the world, experts ...