Research from my colleagues and I revealed that mitochondria play another key role in your immune response: sensing bacterial activity and helping neutrophils, a type of white blood cell, trap and ...

Researchers at the University of Southampton have worked out how bacteria defend themselves against viruses called phages and ...

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Amyloids are perhaps best known as a key driver of Alzheimer's disease. The amorphous proteins, found throughout the human ...

Researchers at the University of Southampton have worked out how bacteria defend themselves against viruses called phages and ...

Furthermore, our engineered bacterial vector was less toxic, minimized CXB's adverse effects, and increased the action of DOX toward tumor cells," explains Dr. Huang when discussing the study's ...

On its own, that's not shocking. Lots of genomes (including our own) have plenty of disabled viruses in them. But bacteria tend to eliminate extraneous DNA from their genomes fairly quickly. In ...