Whether you had breakfast this morning or not, your pancreas is working quietly behind the scenes. This vital organ produces ...

Difficult-to-measure amounts of microbes and cells. In 1972, biochemist . Thomas Luckey. estimated that each gram of human feces contained one hundred billion bacteria, and that the digestive ...

The totality of bacteria, viruses and fungi that exist in and on a multicellular organism forms its natural microbiome. The ...

ASU professor Glen D’Souza joined The Show to speak more about what he’s discovered about these bacteria: Not only will ...

Scientists with the Human Cell Atlas (HCA), an international research consortium, have profiled 100 million cells from more than 10,000 people around the world. Working in over 100 countries, the ...

An obscure group of phages offers insights into elements of microbial warfare—and blueprints for new antibiotics.

Welcome to the second installment of "Cancer and the Gut Microbiome: A Miniseries". Here, we focus on how the microbiome ...

However, when Sternberg’s lab used these enzymes to edit human cells, they found that editing occurred in about 0.1% of cells, much too low to be used as a potential therapeutic.

Mitochondria are not just the powerhouses of the cell – they are the immune system’s watchtowers, alert to even the faintest metabolic signals of bacterial invaders. As researchers’ understanding of ...

Most bacterial and viral infections are contagious and spread fast, especially during the rainy season—most people are unaware that different types of pathogens—bacteria and viruses—cause symptoms of ...

Two of these human proteins, called CD46 and CD55, prevent complement proteins from latching onto the amoeba’s surface. In essence, the amoebae are killing human cells and then donning their protein ...