Using Mice, Duke Researchers Identify How Allergic Shock Occurs So Quickly A newly identified immune cell mines the blood for allergens to directly trigger inflammation
Chlamydia Attacks With Frankenstein Protein The bacterium remodels human cells for its own nefarious purposes When Chlamydia trachomatis, the bacterium that causes one of the most common sexually...
Our Microbes Are Starving, and That’s a Good Thing High-protein diet, antibiotics make gut a festering swamp Each of us is only half human. The other half is microbial. Trillions of viruses, fungi,...
New Finding Could Unmask Blood Doping in Athletes RNA changes mark old blood cells among new ones, foiling self-transfusions A Duke research team has found a way to help sporting officials detect whether an athlete’...
Microbiology Society Recognizes Two Duke Researchers Joseph Heitman and Nicholas Heaton recognized for basic research The American Society for Microbiology has recognized two Duke researchers with its 2019 ASM...
Smell Receptor Fuels Prostate Cancer Progression Blocking receptor with drugs or scents could be new approach to prostate cancer When scientists first described the receptors responsible for our sense of smell, they naturally...
AI Detects Patterns Of Gut Microbes for Cholera Risk A hundred kinds of microbes out of 4,000 determine susceptibility to cholera Researchers from Duke University, Massachusetts General Hospital and the International Centre...
Toenail Fungus Gives Up Sex to Infect Human Hosts Being a clone of itself may make it vulnerable to new treatments The fungus that causes athlete’s foot and other skin and toenail infections may have lost...
