Foods that look the same on nutrition labels can have vastly different effects on our microbiomes, report researchers in a paper publishing June 12 in the journal Cell Host & Microbe. The researchers' ...

Do cesarean-born babies miss out on essential microbes? New evidence suggests that the answer may be “no.” Researchers report March 8 in the journal Cell Host & Microbe that mothers are able to ...

The first things that mouse newborns touch and eat establishes their native microbiome, which is often influenced by their mother during birth and throughout nursing. Although diet has been a known ...

A recent study published in Cell Host and Microbe provides a detailed look at how skin bacteria are shared—and not shared—among family members, challenging long-held assumptions about the dynamics of ...

New Cleveland Clinic research shows how mosquito-transmitted viruses – like Zika, West Nile, Yellow Fever and dengue viruses – hijack host cells to promote their own replication and infection.

The newly described microbe represents a world of parasitic, intercellular biodiversity only beginning to be revealed by ...

Using state-of-the art technologies to image human cells and study infection at the level of a single bacterial cell, the research team, led by the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, has ...