With a cardboard box, a light source, and some filters, roadside clinics can accurately test for tuberculosis.

Scientists have genetically modified isolated microbes for decades. Now, using CRISPR, they intend to target entire microbiomes.

Vaccination has beaten back infections for more than a century. Now, it may be the next big step in battling cancer.

Biofilms are home to millions of microbes, but disrupting their interactions could produce more effective antibiotics.

Molecules produced by resident bacteria and their hosts may signal immune cells to attack the body’s own tissues.

Regulatory T cells in the colon travel to muscles to promote wound healing in mice, raising questions about how antibiotics may impact injury recovery.

Altering the rate of respiration in mitochondria changes how fast neurons grow, making mouse neurons grow more like human ones and vice versa, a study finds.

A method for culturing the infectious stage of the Plasmodium lifecycle could increase malaria vaccine production efficiency by tenfold, study authors say.