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New research has revealed that microplastics found in the digestive tract of seabirds altered their gut microbiome, increasing the presence of pathogens and decreasing the number of beneficial bacteria.

A study finds that stressors across the lifespan, including poverty, abuse, and divorce, are associated with worsening health and functional outcomes for people with multiple sclerosis.

A cleft lip or palate arises from the combined effects of genes and inflammatory risk factors experienced during pregnancy, such as smoking or infections.

An age-related decline in our body’s immune response to spinal cord injuries has been highlighted by new research that sheds light on new approaches for enhancing patient recovery.

Researchers have shown how protozoans of the genus Leishmania that cause leishmaniasis manipulate a protein that plays an essential role in the organism’s defense in order to continue to replicate, preventing the body from vanquishing the disease.

Researchers have engineered bacteria to produce an unnatural amino acid with a rare functional group that has implications in immune system regulation, providing a foundation for developing future immunotherapies.

A doctoral student has identified a previously unknown strategy that the foodborne bacterium Listeria monocytogenes uses to invade and infect humans and animals.

Vaccines against smallpox given until the mid-1970s offer continuing cross-reactive immunity to mpox (previously known as monkeypox), researchers from Karolinska Institutet in Sweden report.

Rare diseases are often caused by defects in genetic material. If children inherit only a defective gene from one parent, they often are asymptomatic “carriers” – or at least that was the previous assumption.

Inflammatory fatty liver disease and the resulting liver cancer are driven by autoaggressive T cells. Scientists now show what is behind this destructive behavior.