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Worldwide, more than one billion people are obese. Weight loss via intermittent energy restriction results in synchronized changes throughout brain-gut microbiome axis.

A new study has found changes in the microbiome in multiple locations in the body are linked to the formation of kidney stones. The research team examined the gut, urinary and salivary microbiomes in 83 patients who had kidney stones.

Chemical signals from host plants, determined by their genetics, regulate which microorganisms are allowed into their root microbiomes.

The inflammatory signals that prompt a body’s immune response have an entirely different role in the earliest stages of life, playing a crucial role in blood cell formation.

Researchers report that local rivers and streams were the source of the Salmonella enterica contamination along coastal North Carolina after Hurricane Florence in 2018 – not the previously suspected high number of pig farms in the region.

A collaborative team of researchers announced that they had successfully learned how to sabotage a key piece of machinery, called the Type 3 secretion system, that pathogens use to infect their host cells.

The genome of a giant bacterium has been described for the first time, revealing its unique mode of reproduction, the ways it meets its metabolic needs and more.

Scientists recently published findings indicating that Ebola virus creates and uses intercellular tunnels to move from cell to cell and evade treatments.

Some coral species can be resilient to marine heat waves by “remembering” how they lived through previous ones, research by Oregon State University scientists suggests.

Researchers have developed the first computer-based predictive model of maternal vaccination and placental antibody transfer.