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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 […]
August 8, 2018

Pathways Ebola virus uses to enter cells

A new study is shedding light on the role of specific proteins that trigger a mechanism allowing Ebola virus to enter cells to establish replication. Pathways […]