Two life forms living together helped spark the evolution of all complex life. By learning to appreciate this process more ...

Scientists at the University of Nottingham have discovered surface patterns that can drastically reduce bacteria's ability to multiply on plastics, which means that infections on medical devices ...

Interactions with mutualistic and commensal bacteria might reveal more tolerance mechanisms. For example, humans do not normally raise pathological immune responses to lipopolysaccharide (LPS) in ...

The good bacteria seem to be coming from the end of the mother's digestive system, an idea known in the field as the "first lick". "I feel pretty confident in saying that vaginal seeding is not a ...