Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the pathogen responsible for tuberculosis, has evolved a remarkably layered set of molecular ...

A vaccine usually trains your immune system to recognize one target. Here, the target is basically “anything that doesn’t ...

Growing research suggests the bacteria left behind by the common childhood infection may trick the immune system into ...

New study shows how bacteria adapted a virus-derived injection system to recognize and attach to many different types of cells. By systematically identifying thousands of rapidly evolving ...

Sukrit Silas and his colleagues at Gladstone Institutes and UC San Francisco discovered that a well-known defense system in some bacteria can kill the cell as a last resort if viruses try to thwart it ...

After nearly 40 years of research on how Listeria bacteria manipulate our cells and battle our immune system to cause ...

Most bacteria, including many bacterial pathogens, are surrounded by an outer protective layer of sugar molecules, known as a capsule. This primarily protects the bacteria from environmental ...

Scientists in Geneva have uncovered that neutrophils, the body’s trusted immune cells, can be taken over by tumours. Once reprogrammed, they produce a molecule called CCL3 that actively fuels cancer ...