Evidence shows infant microbiome trajectories established in the first months of life persist, shaping immune function and allergy risk into ...

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 ...

As a hematologist and physician-scientist who specializes in bone marrow transplantation, Dr. Albert Yeh describes the “holy grail” of transplantation biology that has yet to be answered: “how do you ...

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 ...

Even its ancestry is an enigma. Phylogenetic trees place Sukunaarchaeum as a “deep-branching” member of the domain ...