A large study has revealed that dozens of widely used chemicals can damage beneficial gut bacteria. Many of these substances, found in pesticides and everyday industrial products, were never thought ...

From pesticides in our food to hormone disruptors in our kitchen pans, modern life is saturated with chemicals, exposing us to unknown long-term health impacts. One of the surest routes to quantifying ...

Researchers resent a new molecule for visualizing the sphingomyelin metabolism. This offers prospects for innovative therapeutic approaches in infection research. At the end of the 19th century, the ...

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 ...

Research led by Hannah Weppner, a graduate student in the lab of Assistant Professor Laurel Hind, highlighting how a population of immune cells can weaken the body’s response to infection, was ...