Vedanta Biosciences is a late clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company developing a new category of microbiome-based oral therapies for gastrointestinal diseases. Vedanta's lead program, VE303, is ...

Study Objectives: Poor dental hygiene has been linked to respiratory pathogen colonization in residents of long-term care facilities. We sought to investigate the association between dental plaque (DP ...

Initial studies of staphylococcal adhesion focused on binding to the extracellular matrix and plasma proteins. More recently, studies have investigated adhesins for human keratinocytes and their ...

Probiotic use to prevent the colonization of the lower intestine by harmful pathogens may be ineffective, according to a study from the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America. Over a 21-month ...

In a surprising twist, gut pathogens like Salmonella are not repelled by fecal indole; instead, they exploit it to locate nutrient-rich environments, turning a microbial defense into a colonization ...

Using microbes to fight diseases like cancer may seem counterintuitive at first. Yet, this approach is at the heart of work ...

Eric G. Pamer is at the Duchossois Family Institute, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60637, USA. Examining a collection of K. pneumoniae bacteria with mutated versions of genes, the authors ...

New research reveals that what we eat, down to the type of dietary protein, can tip the balance between Vibrio cholerae and the gut microbiota, reshaping bacterial competition and disease potential ...

Two kinds of bacteria that naturally occur in the respiratory microbiome may help protect against long COVID when present in ...

The skin is the largest organ of the human body. Not only does it act as the first line of defence against external stressors such as environmental toxins, pathogens and pollutants, our skin can also ...