Far from Earth's gravitational pull, a simple viral infection took on a new evolutionary direction. A study conducted aboard the ISS found that when bacteria and ...

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 ...

Bacteriophages have been used therapeutically to treat infectious bacterial diseases for over a century. As ...

Laboratories turned to a smart workaround when COVID‑19 testing kits became scarce in 2020. They mixed samples from several ...

Soybeans have quietly become one of the most strategically important crops on Earth, feeding people and animals while ...

In order to reprogram readily available cells into specific immune cells that fight various diseases, one must know the ...

UF scientists are developing high‑tech, gene‑edited citrus varieties to help Florida growers fight citrus greening and speed solutions from lab to grove.

In a new study, terrestrial bacteria-infecting viruses were still able to infect their E. coli hosts in near-weightless “microgravity” conditions aboard the International Space Station, but the ...

A professional dietitian spent seven days tracking the metabolic and digestive effects of America’s favorite superfood, ...

The study reveals that environmental stressors do not merely kill bacteria; they can also prime surviving cells to take up ...