The body is well protected against invading pathogens by barriers such as the skin. But if you injure yourself and break your skin, pathogens can easily enter your body through the wound and cause ...

When bacteria build communities, they cooperate and share nutrients across generations. Researchers at the University of Basel have been able to demonstrate this for the first time using a newly ...

video: Individual neutrophils (cyan) attract more cells to initiate the formation of a neutrophil swarm and cluster (pink) in living mouse tissue (blue). Researchers from the MPI of Immunobiology and ...