The trillions of microbial cells in our gastrointestinal tract have their own genomes and metabolic products, many of which ...

Viruses that infect and kill bacteria, called phages, hold promise as new treatment types for dangerous infections, including ...

Microorganisms produce a wide variety of natural products that can be used as active ingredients to treat diseases such as ...

"Our approach mimics the natural bacterial gene transfer process to directly liberate and amplify entire biosynthetic gene clusters within the native bacterial cell, granting access to previously ...

The designers of phage therapies hope to avert the problem in treatment with antibiotics, where a certain drug kills bacteria ...

The human body is a stressful place for bacteria to live. They must defend against many chemical and physical stressors, in ...

Insights into how diverse phage communities coexist within a single E. coli strain could lead to newer, more effective ...

But virologists know little about how phages persist in the populations of bacterial cells they infect, hampering the ...

A toxin in the bacteria that's one of the most common causes of foodborne illness accelerates the spread of colorectal tumors to other parts of the body, a study led by UF Health Cancer Center ...

A new study from the Department of Nutrition, Exercise and Sports at the University of Copenhagen increases our knowledge ...

By comparing cancer incidence rates with genomic surveillance data, researchers suggest that higher rates of certain cancers in the UK and other countries may be linked to two bacterial strains. These ...

However, bacterial treatments have had limited success because, while they do have a suppressant effect on tumor cell growth, they also suppress a part of our immune system that is essential to ...