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As antibiotic resistance continues to rise worldwide, scientists are searching for new strategies to combat infections. This ...

What are probiotics, and how are they beneficial to your body? Host of Bloom, Amber Freeman, joins scientific advisory board ...

Researchers have found that transplanting specific gut viruses into obese mice can sharply improve how those animals regulate ...

White adipose tissue stores energy, while brown and beige fat burn energy through thermogenesis. Under certain environmental ...

Four types of lung cells — including immune cells — function together on a chip environment that simulates respiration and ...

The human body may seem like a single, self-contained system, but it actually hosts trillions of microscopic organisms. These ...

Researchers from the Earlham Institute, in collaboration with the Department of Biology at the University of Oxford, have ...

Bacteria block the immune system with lactic acid and cause infections to become chronic, revealing why some wounds don't ...

Materials inspired by nature, or biomimetic materials, are nothing new. Scientists have designed water-resistant materials ...

There are more viruses than there are human cells, bacterial cells and any other cells," Jeremy Barr, a virologist at Monash ...