In a recent study published in the journal PLOS Biology, researchers adapt a strain of human body lice to a membrane feeder to study its infection dynamics with Yersinia pestis, the causative agent of ...

Scientists have long known that the human body coexists with trillions of individual germs, what they call the microbiome. Until now, they’ve mostly studied those that cause disease: You may recall ...

Some bacteria, among the deadliest in the world, seek out blood in the body like microscopic vampires, researchers say. National Cancer Institute via Unsplash Dracula. Edward Cullen. Morbius. Count ...

Antibiotics are a double-edged sword—they should be as toxic as possible to pathogenic bacteria while being harmless to the cells of the human body. An international research team led by the Helmholtz ...

Expelling toxic “forever chemicals” from the body may take guts — or at least, their microbes. Some microbes found in the human gut can absorb some per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, or PFAS, ...

Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS)—the so-called “forever chemicals”—have long been known to accumulate in the human body, raising alarms due to links with decreased fertility, cardiovascular ...