Bacterial metabolites queuine and preQ1 have been found to directly regulate protein synthesis in human cells, promoting or ...

Scientists at the University of Texas at Dallas say microbes in the gut could be a key to reducing pain from sickle cell disease. In a study published last month in Cell Host & Microbe, the UT Dallas ...

When Typhoid Mary died in 1938, in medical exile on a tiny New York island, she took untold numbers of Salmonella typhi to her grave. No one knew how the bacteria managed to thrive and not kill her.

A recent study published in Cell Host and Microbe provides a detailed look at how skin bacteria are shared—and not shared—among family members, challenging long-held assumptions about the dynamics of ...

A new study by researchers at the VIB-UGent Center for Medical Biotechnology and collaborators demonstrates how a protein linked to the human immune system lures and traps HIV-1 and herpes simplex ...

Some things just go together in your belly: peanut butter and jelly, salt and pepper, bacteria and bacteria-eating viruses. For the bacterial species that inhabit your gut, there's a frenzy of viruses ...

How do you turn toxic waste into fuel? Ask the microbe. A team of scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Marine ...