The past two decades witnessed a revolution in our understanding of host–microbial interactions that led to the concept of the mammalian holobiont — the result of co-evolution of the eukaryotic and ...

The skin is a complex and dynamic ecosystem inhabited by many microorganisms. The capacity of a given microorganism to trigger or promote disease is dependent on the state of immune activation of the ...

The other day, I was giving a talk, and someone raised their hand. “What the heck is the microbiome?” he said, as he was trying to make some positive changes in his own health and had been hearing a ...

Some people with bacterial gut infections remain symptom-free while passing the infection on to others. A new study has shed light on the interplay between bacteria, diet and the immune system that ...

Mucosal pathogens are responsible for many severe infectious diseases, including influenza, severe acute respiratory syndrome coronaviruses 1 and 2 (SARS-CoV-1 and SARS-CoV-2, respectively), ...

Bacteria can communicate information about population density to one another through a phenomenon called quorum sensing, and it’s known that they can alter gene expression in response. New research by ...