Bacteria that live peacefully in the human gut can aim molecular syringes at intestinal cells and fire proteins directly into ...

"These symbiotic relationships constitute one of the most ancient associations between multicellular organisms and groups of microbes, and, in many cases, they are fundamental to the persistence of ...

Fungal effectors are small, secreted proteins or enzymes deployed by pathogenic and symbiotic fungi to manipulate plant physiology and immunity. By targeting host recognition systems and immune ...

Scientists have identified many types of bacteria in the mouth, but many problems remain in understanding how they work with one another. One of the problems is that microbes assemble themselves into ...

Researchers have been learning more about specific species of microbes that live in the human gut, and how those microbes are connected to various aspects of our health and well-being. This can be a ...

Live biotherapeutics represent an emerging frontier in microbiotechnology, offering novel approaches to treat and prevent ...

About six years ago, Srivatsan Raman, a biochemist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and his team took a trip to NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia. Standing a mile away from the ...

We share the world with myriad creatures from microbes to plants, and it’s been said that we are all connected. In recent years, scientists have shown just how much of an impact microbes can have on ...

Researchers have long suspected that the gut microbiome—the community of bacteria and other microorganisms living in the ...