Plants are a rich and renewable source of compounds used in medicines, food ingredients, and cosmetics. Since growing an ...

Marine animals, such as the extremely simple flatworm Trichoplax, are ideal model organisms for studying the early ...

An inflammatory sugar molecule produced by certain gut bacteria may play a key role in driving ALS, a study found.

A Dartmouth study finds that molecular hitchhikers living within bacteria can make their hosts extra resistant to medical ...

Your gut is home to trillions of bacteria that constantly “sense” their surroundings to survive and thrive. New research shows that beneficial gut microbes, especially common Clostridia bacteria, can ...

Rivals or allies—how do bacteria and fungi interact in our bodies? Until now, bacteria on our mucous membranes were primarily ...

Study finds hidden microbiome toxicity in everyday pollutants, with some chemicals linked to antibiotic resistance.

Scientists have uncovered a direct molecular mechanism by which gut bacteria inject proteins into human cells, reshaping immune responses and potentially driving inflammatory disease. Scientists have ...

Researchers studying bacteria from freshwater lakes and soil say they have determined a protein's essential role in maintaining the germ's shape. Because the integrity of a bacterial cell's 'envelope' ...

Plant cell cultures are an attractive alternative to cultivating whole plants for obtaining natural compounds, but many ...