Stanford University microbiologist Stanley Falkow, famous for his work on bacterial resistance to antibiotics and known by his colleagues as the “father of molecular microbial pathogenesis,” died ...

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Coral reefs depend on a delicate association between the animal host and its diverse microbial community, collectively the holobiont. Under stable conditions, symbiotic bacteria and other microbes ...

In a new study, Yale researchers identify the targets in the human body to which pathogens transmitted by mosquitoes, ticks, and other vectors bind. Their findings, they say, could help address the ...