Light is a universal stimulus that influences all living things. Cycles of light and dark help set the biological clocks for ...

The integrity of the water cycle is fundamentally linked to human health, with contaminated water serving as a primary vehicle for the transmission of ...

That’s only one problem. Your immune system also has an adaptive system of specialized immune cells and antibodies that attack and destroy invading microbes. This system remembers what those intruders ...

A bacterial cell settles onto a nondescript surface. It is plump, healthy and functioning as it should. Nothing appears amiss ...

Wits scientists have identified a "microbial watchlist" of bacteria, viruses, fungi and parasites that could cause cancer.

When scientists sent bacteria-infecting viruses to the International Space Station, the microbes did not behave the same way ...

The protein called intelectin-2 plays another important role by reinforcing the protective mucus layer that lines the ...

This important study, which tackles the challenge of analyzing genome integrity and instability in unicellular pathogens by introducing a novel single-cell genomics approach, presents compelling ...

Researchers report how Paenibacillus avoids harm by its own antibiotic — information that is crucial for developing new drug ...

War zones often breed desperation, but sometimes they birth medical miracles too, even though they might be bizarre.A similar ...