Microbiology and immunology

Intestinal sialic acid is crucial for bacteria effectiveness in the gut

Proteins that slip into the brain through blood are responsible for reversing immune cell behavior

We spoke with Craig MacLean on how antibacterials are driving resistance – even among host AMPs

Sitting Down With… Laura Tafe, President of the Association for Molecular Pathology

A curation of readers’ artworks on a single, uniting subject – pathology.

Can machine learning and transcriptomics accurately determine sepsis risk of those with acute infection?

Syndromic molecular testing can give us greater insight into the infectious disease landscape – and potentially prevent future pandemics

How real-world data such as genomics can inform better disease forecasting

A combination of pathogen detection and host transcriptional profiling can quickly detect sepsis and help identify appropriate treatments

A relatively obscure disease could thrive and spread in a warmer, drier United States