Urinary tract infections are increasingly becoming resistant to first-line antibiotics, and this may be a warning for our ability to treat other microbial infections
Mycologist Flora Patterson helped make the USDA fungus collection into the world’s largest. She also made a mean mushroom “catsup”
Do sleeping spores dream of electric sheep?
Clusters of bacteria and fungi seem to be capable of complex movement, setting tooth decay in motion
A new chip re-creates the human vagina’s unique microbiome
The parasite Toxoplasma gondii can change the behavior of infected wolves in ways that make them more likely to be pack leaders
A virologist explains what it takes for a virus to leap from an animal host into humans
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There’s a structural reason your sponge hosts so many microbes
New studies reveal the complex world of bacterial epigenetics
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Specific mutations hide the COVID-causing variant from the immune system and give it a new route into more cells
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