Some things just go together in your belly: peanut butter and jelly, salt and pepper, bacteria and bacteria-eating viruses.

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Scientists have discovered a new type of immune defense in E. coli bacteria that turns viral infection machinery against the ...

Scientists have long known that bacteriophages, viruses that infect bacteria, live in our gut, but exactly what they do has ...

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Affected populations: Nocardiosis is a rare but potentially deadly infectious disease caused by bacteria in the genus Nocardia. Nocardiosis is an opportunistic infection, meaning it doesn't ...

New research reveals that proteins in Sydney rock oyster hemolymph (their equivalent of blood ... can hinder efforts to treat ...

Diagnoses have increased by 15% since 2004 among adults under 50. Scientists have struggled to find the reason why.