Communication between cells in plants, animals and humans takes place via specialized connecting structures. An international ...

When it comes to invading healthy cells, Legionella bacteria rely on blending in rather than breaking in. New research from ...

A research team at the University of Greifswald's Research Training Group RTG-PRO "Proteases in pathogen and host: importance in infection and inflammation" has discovered a new mechanism by which ...

Researchers at the University of Toronto have discovered that bacteria can drive stem cell regeneration to repair the intestinal lining after injury—uncovering an unexpected way in which the gut ...

A common claim holds that the human body contains ten times as many bacterial cells as human ones, a striking figure repeated ...

Severe bacterial infections remain a major global health challenge because antibiotics alone often fail when the host immune system becomes dysfunctional.

Researchers at Karolinska Institutet have discovered that gut bacteria can convert dietary nitrate and iron into protective ...

Communication between cells in plants, animals and humans takes place via specialised connecting structures. An international team led by biologists from Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf (HHU) and ...