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Scientists found that some preterm infants undergo marked alterations in their pattern of gut viruses shortly before developing a serious and often fatal disease known as necrotizing enterocolitis.

A study in mice has shown that the skin microbiome enhances the immune response to a dermal smallpox vaccination.

Research shows that fungi and bacteria able to survive redwood tanoak forest megafires are microbial “cousins” that often increase in abundance after feeling the flames.

What gets into the brain and what doesn’t is strictly regulated. Researchers have now studied phagocytes that coat the blood vessels in the brain and reinforce the blood-brain barrier. The study shows that these cells only mature fully after birth according to a defined step-by-step developmental program.

Researchers have shown that the positive effect of a calorie-reduced diet on the immune system is mediated by an altered gut microbiome, which slows down the deterioration of the immune system in old age.

According to research, SARS-CoV-2 can directly infect a specialized type of kidney cell and hijack the cell’s machinery to replicate, causing injury and COVID-19-associated kidney disease.

A new study has sequenced the genome of the Australian desert dingo, a wild dog that has been geographically isolated from both wolves and domestic dogs for thousands of years. Researchers showed that there are structural differences that separate the dingo genome from that of breed dogs .

Scientists have examined the prevalence of a bacterial organism that causes food poisoning in foods from retail stores, finding genetic material in 13.9% of the tested chicken samples.

WHO has recommended nirmatrelvir and ritonavir as the best therapeutic choice for high-risk COVID-19 patients to date.

A new platform for visualizing viruses that uses the optical phenomenon of "slow light" has been used to detect SARS-CoV-2.