Telomere phages, once ignored, help bacteria fight rivals using telocins. These toxins may target antibiotic-resistant ...

A deadly superbug that sometimes claims the lives of more than a million people globally a year may have a nemesis that lives ...

Group Captain Shubhanshu Shukla will travel to the International Space Station. He is part of Axiom Mission-4. The mission is ...

After spending years tracing the origin and migration pattern of an unusual type of immune cell in mice, researchers have shown in a new study how activity of 'good' microbes in the gut is linked to ...

Scientists inserted DNA-encoding methylmercury detoxification enzymes into the genome of an abundant human gut bacterium. The engineered bacterium detoxified methylmercury in the gut of mice and ...

Thailand has confirmed its first anthrax death since 1994, prompting a health alert as over 600 people are monitored for ...

A study from Jiangnan University reveals that a gut microbe, Bacteroides vulgatus, can naturally regulate blood sugar levels ...