Credit: Nature (2024). DOI: 10.1038/s41586-024-08493-8 The study shows how bacteria adapt their molecular machinery to fend off threats, with potential implications for medicine and biotechnology.

Plant pests such as bacteria and fungi lead to significant yield losses in agriculture. In order to develop new strategies against such pathogens, understanding the plant's immune response is of ...

These bacteria form communities that help digest food, fend off harmful microbes, and play many other roles in maintaining human health. These bacteria can be vulnerable to infection from viruses ...

Vaccines train our bodies to recognize and fend off germs before they make us sick. Traditionally, vaccines are made using viruses that have been killed or weakened, like vaccines against the flu ...