microbiology, disease & medicine, immunology

Research in mice and humans is beginning to establish a link between the composition of microbes in the gut and immune responses to tumor cells, but the mechanisms are not yet clear.

University of Michigan’s Ada Hagan separates fact from fiction, such as whether you should starve a fever or if eating chocolate really causes acne.

Quieting immune attacks against pathogens and even providing nutrients to the invaders could improve health, according to a new line of research.

Antigens originating from the microbiome may trigger an autoimmune response.

Symbiotic bacteria, metabolism, and stress pathways can all help animals tolerate, rather than succumb, to disease.

Tweaking the genomes of two phages and combining them with a third phage helped to clear a persistent Mycobacterium infection in the patient.

Some patients could suppress the virus without antiretroviral therapy for months after the drug infusions.

Researchers found a previously undiscovered hepadnavirus in an immunocompromised cat.