In a breakthrough for influenza research, scientists have discovered immune cells that can recognize influenza (flu) viruses ...

Our guts are home to trillions of bacteria, and research over the last few decades has established how essential they are to ...

Make your antibiotic medication as effective as possible by getting these answers before you leave the doctor's office or pharmacy.

Nanotube bridge networks grow between the most abundant photosynthetic bacteria in the oceans, suggesting that the world is ...

Packets of one antibiotic medication are being recalled from suppliers due to an extra tablet found in some batches.

A new study shows that oral fecal microbiota transplantation (FMT) is a feasible and safe addition to preventing graft-versus-host disease in patients undergoing stem cell transplantation for blood ...

A new study shows that oral fecal microbiota transplantation (FMT) is a feasible and safe addition to preventing graft-versus ...

One of these mechanisms involves plasmids, small DNA molecules in bacterial cells, which have their own independent genome and carry antibiotic resistance. Read the full story here.

Eating foods high in key nutrients, including iron, folic acid, and vitamin B12, and limiting alcohol may help increase your red blood cell count. Red blood cells are the most common cells in ...

In 2009 a team of biophysicists led by Anthony A. Hyman of the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics in Dresden, Germany, were studying specklelike structures called P ...