The trillions of microbial cells in our gastrointestinal tract have their own genomes and metabolic products, many of which ...

Microorganisms produce a wide variety of natural products that can be used as active ingredients to treat diseases such as ...

"Our approach mimics the natural bacterial gene transfer process to directly liberate and amplify entire biosynthetic gene clusters within the native bacterial cell, granting access ... "So far, large ...

Adding to the ever-growing list of newly discovered bacterial immune systems, we have characterized the mechanisms of an ...

The designers of phage therapies hope to avert the problem in treatment with antibiotics, where a certain drug kills bacteria ...

Discover how toxins from gut bacteria accelerate colorectal cancer spread, paving the way for early detection and new ...

Antimicrobial peptides have not typically lived up to their promise, especially when it comes to beating antibiotic ...

A new study reveals how a single species of bacteria can sustain a diverse community of phage species, with implications for ...

Certain intestinal bacteria are found more frequently in countries such as Norway than in a number of other countries and ...

Fish, of course, are not humans, but they allow a fair comparison, Salinas said. And her work suggests that if fish have ...

A toxin in the bacteria that's one of the most common causes of foodborne illness accelerates the spread of colorectal tumors ...

A new study from the Department of Nutrition, Exercise and Sports at the University of Copenhagen increases our knowledge ...