Our skin is a crucial, protective barrier that is considered to be a major part of our immune defenses. When pathogens try to infect us, they have to get into our bodies or into our cells, and ...

(LONDON) — A collaborative team led by researchers from Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health (GOSH), London and including researchers from the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired ...

The rise of antibiotic resistance has renewed interest in bacteriophages as therapeutic alternatives. However, co-evolution of phage and bacteria will naturally give rise to phage-resistant pathogens, ...

Salmonella bacteria (red) cause up to a million deaths a year worldwide and there is a need for effective vaccines. New work from UC Davis shows how Salmonella-specific T-cells can be stimulated to ...

Wastewater treatment fails to kill several human pathogens when they hide out on microplastics in the water, according to a new study. Wastewater treatment fails to kill several human pathogens when ...

Drug-resistant bacteria could lead to more deaths than cancer by 2050, according to a report commissioned by the United Kingdom in 2014 and jointly supported by the U.K. government and the Wellcome ...