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.

Among those that thrived during chemotherapy was a nonpathogenic strain of E. coli that produced vitamin K2. When the researchers gave vitamin K2 to mice who’d been treated with fluoropyrimidine drugs ...

Rabies is a zoonotic disease that remains an important public health problem worldwide and causes more than 70,000 human deaths each year. The causative agent of rabies is rabies virus (RV), a ...

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

Bioluminescent, nonpathogenic B. subtilis LLO- luxA-E (104,105) (LLO- lux) was shown to localize to 4T1 orthotopic tumors and persist in the tumor for a week after IV injection of 10 8 bacteria while ...

In this study, the authors investigated whether HIV-1 cell-to-cell transmission activates the CARD8 inflammasome in macrophages. The data convincingly support the idea that CARD8 is activated by the ...

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 ...

1 Department of Neurology, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Soochow University and Clinical Research Center of Neurological Disease, Suzhou, China 2 Department of Cardiology, The Second Affiliated ...

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 ...