A new study has identified a strong link between oral microbiota and autism spectrum disorder (ASD), revealing 11 bacterial ...

Industrial Technology Development Institute developed a nanotechnology that can detect bacteria, viruses, and even cancer ...

Drug-resistant infections - especially from deadly bacteria like tuberculosis and staph - are a growing global health crisis.

Unfortunately, this process takes longer to develop than the innate response. The problem of microbial detection is part of a more general problem in cell biology: How can a cell obtain ...

JK: So, in 1989, Charles Janeway illustrated a prophetic idea that there would be these receptors that our immune system uses to detect infections, and that those receptors were really operating like ...

Assistant Professor Andrew Monteith's lab in the Department of Microbiology is documenting how key immune cells detect ...