With antibiotic-resistant gonorrhea on the rise, the vaccine could provide a way to prevent the disease from spreading.

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Using advanced proteomics technologies, research teams from the Shanghai Institute of Nutrition and Health at the Chinese ...

Study in mice shows how a host-elicited factor benefits gut immunological homeostasis by selectively targeting commensal ceramide molecules.

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Paper: “A live bacteria enzyme assay for identification of human disease mutations and drug screening” by Donghui Choe and Bernhard Palsson in the journal Nature Biomedical Engineering. This work was ...

Many ticks can carry bacteria, viruses and parasites that can harm humans, including Lyme disease and anaplasmosis.

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