microbiology, immunology

Some of our resident viruses may be beneficial.

Dictyostelium discoideum produce extracellular nets that can kill bacteria, just as phagocytes in people and other higher animals do, according to a study.

The genome of a mimivirus strain resistant to a virophage has repeated phage sequences alongside nuclease- and helicase-coding sections.

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Gut bacteria control tumor growth via the mammalian immune system.

Microorganisms continually challenge our assumptions of what life can achieve.

Researchers find strong correlations between the composition of the human microbiome and genetic variation in immune-related pathways.

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The method to the dengue virus's maddening infectiousness.

The global spread of dengue virus has immunologists and public-health experts debating the best way to curb infection.

Mice fed a mix of six strains of bacteria were able to fight a C. difficile infection that causes deadly diarrhea and is resistant to most types of treatment.

Are states with less rigorous rules about which children can claim an exception from vaccination in kindergarten putting communities at higher risk of childhood disease?

A human trial of a hepatitis C treatment is shut down after one of the participants died.

Mice with inflammatory bowel disease harbor gut bacteria that damage host DNA, predisposing mice to cancer.

Researchers find a slew of new fungal species inhabiting the human gut, and suggest a link to an inflammatory bowel disease.

A new study shows that grooming by ants promotes colony-wide resistance to fungal infections by transferring small amounts of pathogen to nestmates.

Editor's choice in immunology

Editor’s choice in immunology

The Nobel Assembly announced today that three researchers in the field of immunology will share the 2011 Prize in Physiology or Medicine.