The face masks worn and discarded during the COVID-19 pandemic have an uncertain fate. Their physical damage to the ...

A small DNA change restored crop immunity to Ralstonia, the bacterium behind a devastating plant disease causing over $1 billion in losses.

Scientists are using AI and genetic engineering to enhance plant immunity, offering a new defense against crop diseases.

A new study finds that leaking electrons from brain mitochondria may act as a biological switch to trigger sleep under stress ...

In a hot spring at Yellowstone National Park, a microbe does something that life shouldn’t be able to do: It breathes oxygen ...

That exposure to oxygen, and to the compounds chemists call “reactive oxygen species,” may have given those early microbes a reason to evolve some important enzymes, which eventually gave them ...

Neutrophils, once considered simple foot soldiers of innate immunity, are now recognized as complex players in cancer.