Coral reefs depend on a delicate association between the animal host and its diverse microbial community, collectively the holobiont. Under stable conditions, symbiotic bacteria and other microbes ...

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Cystic fibrosis (CF) lung disease is driven not only by the host genetics and immune response but by a dynamic microbial ecosystem in which bacteria, fungi and viruses engage in cooperative and ...

In a new study, Yale researchers identify the targets in the human body to which pathogens transmitted by mosquitoes, ticks, and other vectors bind. Their findings, they say, could help address the ...