The experiment should have been an exercise in futility. Bioengineer Eijiro Miyako had isolated two species of bacteria, one of which sometimes colonizes tumorous tissues, and used them in an attempt ...

As concerns grow about the end of the antibiotic era due to proliferating strains of superbugs unhampered by drugs, promising advancements are emerging in the realm of antimicrobials. Researchers in ...

Researchers have established a direct experimental link between inflammatory signals in the intestinal lining and the kind of spinal cord damage that mimics multiple sclerosis. A study published in ...

A bacteria which causes severe food poisoning could soon be engineeredto help fight bowel cancer – after researchers pinpointed how it stops the body’s own immune cells attacking the disease. Experts ...

IBM and a research group in Singapore have engineered a new kind of synthetic, biodegradable nano particle that could be used to attack bacteria that have become resistant to antibiotics. The ...

Explore how probiotic bacteria might be engineered to fight cancer, using Escherichia coli Nissle 1917 in innovative ...

New study shows how bacteria adapted a virus-derived injection system to recognize and attach to many different types of cells. By systematically identifying thousands of rapidly evolving ...

Sukrit Silas and his colleagues at Gladstone Institutes and UC San Francisco discovered that a well-known defense system in some bacteria can kill the cell as a last resort if viruses try to thwart it ...

Magnetic soft robots deliver and release tens of millions of probiotic bacteria with timed control, disrupt tumor spheroids in vitro, and demonstrate a potential strategy for targeted cancer treatment ...

Chinese scientists have transformed E coli into a cancer treatment that can infiltrate and combat tumour cells from within.

During infections, the immune system needs to distinguish foreign molecules from invading bacteria and viruses from molecules that are made by cells of the body. If it can’t, the immune system can ...