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An investigational HIV vaccine regimen tested among men who have sex with men (MSM) and transgender people was safe but did not provide protection against HIV acquisition, an independent data and safety monitoring board (DSMB) has determined.

According to a study, exposure to salmonella was linked with colon cancers that developed earlier and grew larger in human colon cancer tissue samples and animal models.

Researchers have addressed the long-standing question of how benign gut microbes evade the immune system. In doing so, they have also reshaped our understanding of how immune receptors interact with the bacterial motility protein flagellin.

Researchers have found that a specific colonization of microbes in the reproductive tract is commonly found in women with ovarian cancer.

The "admissions process" for B cells entering germinal centers to mature during virus infection changes over time. New research has identified why this is.

Scientists at the German Cancer Research Center have discovered that a certain population of progenitor cells replace blood cells lost after infections or blood loss.

A new study of domestic and hospital drinking water systems found Legionella in 41% of samples – with researchers making a key connection between the pathogen’s co-existence with a "host" microorganism in all samples tested.

Scientists from the Netherlands Cancer Institute and Leiden University Medical Center have discovered the way in which specialized immune cells can detect and remove cancers that are "invisible" to the conventional defense mechanisms employed by the immune system.

Selecting an appropriate sample preparation method can improve the efficiency and accuracy of mold identification, and researchers have now evaluated three different MALDI-TOF MS approaches for the identification of molds.

A new test that "fishes" for multiple respiratory viruses at once using single strands of DNA as "bait", and gives highly accurate results in under an hour, has been developed by Cambridge researchers.