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August 10, 2018

Fresh insight into invasive plant that blights UK rivers

New research into the behavior of an invasive plant seen on riverbanks across the UK could help improve the management of the problem, experts have found. […]
August 9, 2018

Changes in gut microbiome in only one subset of helminth-infected patients

Over the last decade, it’s become clearer than ever that bacteria in the human gut– collectively termed the microbiome–play a key role in health and disease. […]
August 9, 2018

Bribing bacteria to play nicely is good for everyone

Researchers report that giving mice dietary iron supplements enabled them to survive a normally lethal bacterial infection and resulted in later generations of those bacteria being […]
August 8, 2018

Bats as hosts: My host is my castle

Bat flies have been studied in a variety of contexts, including host associations and specificity, how bat ecology and roosting biology affects parasitism, and how fly […]