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Under Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s guidance, the CDC no longer recommends routine vaccination to protect against meningococcal ...

A toxin secreted by cholera bacteria can inhibit the growth of colorectal cancer without causing any measurable damage to the ...

Bacteria can sneakily evade our best efforts at eradication by developing resistance to various pressures in their ...

On the ISS, viruses can still infect bacteria, but the process slows and pushes both organisms to evolve along different ...

Some antibiotics stop bacteria from growing without actually killing them, allowing infections to return later. Scientists at ...

Select gut bacteria protect mice against post-influenza virus secondary bacterial pneumonia, according to a study published ...

Adult bacterial meningitis carries high mortality and neurological complications, especially from Listeria and Streptococcus ...

New study reveals that bacteria can survive antibiotic treatment through two fundamentally different "shutdown modes," not ...

Viruses that infect bacteria can still do their job in microgravity, but space changes the rules of the fight.