Marine animals, such as the extremely simple flatworm Trichoplax, are ideal model organisms for studying the early ...

Plant cell cultures are an attractive alternative to cultivating whole plants for obtaining natural compounds, but many ...

In what they labeled a "surprising" finding, Johns Hopkins Medicine researchers studying bacteria from freshwater lakes and soil say they have determined a protein's essential role in maintaining the ...

Scientists have uncovered a direct molecular mechanism by which gut bacteria inject proteins into human cells, reshaping immune responses and potentially driving inflammatory disease. Scientists have ...

A Dartmouth study finds that molecular hitchhikers living within bacteria can make their hosts extra resistant to medical ...