Welcome to the second installment of "Cancer and the Gut Microbiome: A Miniseries". Here, we focus on how the microbiome ...

FILIPINO fermented foods have long been known to contain bacteria that offer health benefits, also known as probiotics.

Conventional pesticides, extensively used in agriculture, pose environmental and human health concerns due to their toxicity and bioaccumulation. As sustainable alternatives, biopesticides derived ...

However, when progressing to nonpathogenic chassis organisms and strategies involving activation of the immune system, late-stage cancers (e.g., 4T1 models) have proven challenging to treat.

Our previous work investigating HIV-dependent CARD8 inflammasome activation used the cationic polymer DEAE-dextran, which is a common reagent used to enhance viral infection in cell culture (Bailey et ...

Pityrosporum folliculitis, also known as Malassezia folliculitis, is a common yeast infection of the hair follicles. 1 This condition is caused by Malassezia, a genus of lipophilic fungi that is part ...

Over the last 10–15 years, our understanding of the composition and functions of the human gut microbiota has increased exponentially. To a large extent, this has been due to new ‘omic’ technologies ...

A mutant strain of Mycobacterium smegmatis mc 2 155 provided the first plasmid transformation platform for any mycobacteria. It has since been used extensively as a surrogate host to study ...