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

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 ...

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.

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 ...

As a hematologist and physician-scientist who specializes in bone marrow transplantation, Dr. Albert Yeh describes the “holy grail” of transplantation biology that has yet to be answered: “how do you ...

When Typhoid Mary died in 1938, in medical exile on a tiny New York island, she took untold numbers of Salmonella typhi to her grave. No one knew how the bacteria managed to thrive and not kill her.