Tuberculosis (TB) is an infectious disease that kills more than a million people worldwide every year. The pathogen that causes the disease, Mycobacterium tuberculosis, is deadly in part because of ...

In the microscopic battlefield of plant-microbe interactions, plants are constantly fighting off invading bacteria. New research reveals just how clever these bacterial invaders can be.

One possible target is the bacterium’s outermost layer, called the mycomembrane, which protects the bacteria from stressors. When M. tuberculosis is attacked by a host’s macrophage immune cells, the ...

Host-pathogen interactions continue to challenge the fields of immunology and infectious disease research, as pathogens deploy a range of strategies to ...

The mechanisms underlying bacterial chromosome configuration are ... structural basis of this interaction and the mechanism of immune evasion.

Many bacterial toxins have the ability to enter target cells, most often by using physiological endocytosis pathways, and to modify a specific intracellular target (Table 3). According to the ...

School of Pharmacy, Jinzhou Medical University, Jinzhou 121000, PR China Institution of Life Science, Jinzhou Medical University, Jinzhou 121000, PR China Key Laboratory of Neurodegenerative Diseases ...

Testing them in immune cells obtained from type 1 diabetes patients, they identified one bacterial insulin B ... this will support our initial molecular mimicry mechanism,” Altindis said. “There is ...

Made in the USA, a new daily oral weight-loss pill from Eli Lilly won't require cold storage and is expected to hit markets in 2026. It reportedly works as well as Ozempic. Eli Lilly & Company ...

These treatments work to strengthen the immune system's capacity to identify and eliminate cancer cells by focusing on various mechanisms. Although cancer cells can be effectively monitored and ...