A bacterium in the human urinary tract can convert a steroid made by the body into testosterone using two newly identified ...
The human body fights staph infections by starving it of essential nutrients. Staph, it turns out, is remarkably good at ...
Our gut is a bustling hub of activity, home to trillions of microbes that work together with our bodies to keep us healthy. A recent study explores one fascinating aspect of this partnership: how gut ...
A common lung bacterium may be far less vulnerable to oxygen than scientists have assumed for a century. The discovery could ...
Bacteria use multiple defense mechanisms to survive in the host body. Shigella bacteria that cause colitis disable multiple host defense pathways using three specialized effector proteins, as reported ...
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Your gut holds more bacterial cells than your body has human cells
It is a fact that reliably startles anyone who hears it for the first time: the human body is home to at least as many ...
Antibiotics are a double-edged sword—they should be as toxic as possible to pathogenic bacteria while being harmless to the cells of the human body. An international research team led by the Helmholtz ...
Microbiologists have discovered how two bacterial species move through the human body by “hitching a ride” on immune cells. The organisms in question are: Francisella tularensis, which causes the ...
In the last decade, an increasing number of studies have been conducted to establish the relationship between gut microbiome composition and body weight. A recent systemic review published in ...
Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS)—the so-called “forever chemicals”—have long been known to accumulate in the human body, raising alarms due to links with decreased fertility, cardiovascular ...
In a recent study published in the journal PLOS Biology, researchers adapt a strain of human body lice to a membrane feeder to study its infection dynamics with Yersinia pestis, the causative agent of ...
Researchers reconstructed ancient versions of a bacteria-killing protein found in tears and breast milk, and some were more ...
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