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Certain antibodies employ unusual tactics to keep germs from attaching to cells in our bodies. Their defensive strategies ...

The International Space Station (ISS) is a closed ecosystem, and the biology inside it — including its microbial residents — ...

Drugs that act against bacteria are mainly assessed based on how well they inhibit bacterial growth under laboratory ...

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A research team at the University of Würzburg has, for the first time, uncovered how E. coli bacteria sneak into the prostate ...

Allergies and asthma affect an increasing number of children worldwide, but now an international research group led by DTU ...

Some antibiotics stop bacteria from growing without actually killing them, allowing infections to return later. Scientists at ...