microbiology

The virus’s ability to slip directly from one cell to another may help it avoid some of the body’s immune responses.

Because most people are vaccinated against tetanus as children, delivering benign bacteria carrying a tetanus antigen into pancreatic tumors makes them visible to memory cells in the immune system, researchers report.

His research uncovered secrets of motility in E. coli.

Malawi and its neighbors plan to vaccinate 9.4 million children against polio in the coming week to combat a suspected outbreak.

The first part of 2022 is giving us a glimpse of humanity’s future relationship with COVID-19.

A seagrass relies on symbiotic bacteria inside its roots to fix nitrogen. This is the first time scientists have demonstrated that this relationship occurs in a marine plant.

A growing appreciation of the bacterial assemblages that live within tumors has researchers striving to understand and capitalize on their role.

Researchers can now explain how some marine plants obtain their nitrogen.

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From diagnosis to tracking treatment responses, bacteria and other microbes in the blood, gut, and tumors of cancer patients may provide helpful hints for improving their care.

Roseolovirus infection disrupts how the body trains immune cells not to attack it, a mouse study shows.

And does it even matter?

A study that examined the brains of people before and after SARS-CoV-2 infection found a decrease in brain volume and damage to olfactory areas compared with controls.

A study finds some E. coli can deploy a chemical called colibactin to reawaken long-dormant viruses inside bacteria, causing destruction.

CRISPR-mediated removal of HIV can create small, infectious DNA molecules.

In Salmonella, two seemingly similar antibiotic survival strategies result from very different molecular mechanisms.

Researchers use genetic clues to track the spread of antibiotic resistant bacteria from the environment to patients.

Canadian researchers identify a highly mutated variant of the virus in white-tailed deer and link it to a human COVID-19 case in the region—though they emphasize that the infection risk to people is low.

Scientists in Canada trace how aquatic communities change as Quebec’s Romaine River flows into the sea.

Three studies that analyzed samples from Wuhan’s Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market add to evidence that SARS-CoV-2 has zoonotic origins.