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In a new study, components of the immune system known as autoantibodies, implicated as central players in a range of serious autoimmune diseases, have also been found in healthy individuals.

Gut bacteria from humans is being passed to wildlife – including birds, lizards and coyotes – in urban areas, altering their gut microbiome.

Researchers have discovered that Fusarium graminearum perithecia provide a specific ecological niche for bacteria that could play an important role in disease establishment.

Research has found that harmful bacteria on sewage-associated plastic waste washed up on beaches can survive long enough to pose a risk to human health.

Scientists have created a film that protects wounds as a bandage would. However it has several additional beneficial properties, it speeds up wound healing, repels bacteria, releases active pharmaceutical ingredients and dissolves by itself.

A new study maps the methods by which Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) bacteria shrug off antibiotics, revealing hundreds of drug targets that could strip this pathogen of its notorious resistances.

An anti-inflammatory therapeutic used to treat inflammatory bowel disease has been associated with increased T-cell activity after vaccination against COVID-19.

Drinking a small amount of whey protein before meals has been shown to help people with type 2 diabetes control their blood sugars.

New research has identified that if T cells are unable to enter a dormant state, they die and leave the host vulnerable to infection.

A new antibiotic, synthesized at The Rockefeller University and derived from computer models of bacterial gene products, appears to neutralize even drug-resistant bacteria.