En 1925, Cecilia Payne bouleverse l’histoire de l’astrophysique en comprenant pour la première fois que les étoiles ne sont pas composées de la même façon que la Terre. S’il a fallu quelque temps pour...

Mycobacterium tuberculosis produces linoleic acid, which is released from macrophages during infection and upregulates regulatory T cell activity, to suppress macrophage control of intracellular bacte...

FUGAsseM predicts protein function in microbiomes using coexpression patterns from metatranscriptomes and diverse community-wide data.

Penny Fenton - A tardigrade moving around a volvox algae colony

Genetic engineering of a yeast strain provides rare but essential pollen sterols for honeybee colonies.

The pathogenic bacterium Pseudomonas aeruginosa can be found in vacuoles and cytoplasm within infected cells. Here, Schator et al. show that extracellular bacteria use a type-III secretion system to i...

Use of artificial intelligence to mine proteomes of archaea led to the discovery of archaeasins, antimicrobials that kill drug-resistant bacteria in laboratory and animal models, offering a promising ...

Tiny, newly formed tumors shed small fragments of DNA that are swept into the bloodstream. Future cancer screening tests could detect them early.

The molecule targets bacteria in a way that other drugs don’t.

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Plastics have infiltrated every recess of the planet, including your lungs, kidneys and other sensitive organs. Scientists are scrambling to understand their effects on health.

A Bacteroides vulgatus metabolite, pantothenate, induces secretion of the hormones GLP1 in the gut and FGF21 in the liver, which act on the hypothalamus to reduce sugar intake.

Si beaucoup se prennent à détester la cage à hyènes qu’est devenu X (ex-Twitter), les alternatives peinent à émerger, notamment dans la recherche.