The use of anthrax as a bioweapon is rare, but devastating. This new treatment might one day save people that are beyond the ...

Although anthrax is a rare infection, the bacteria remains a looming threat ... a life-threatening overeaction by the body’s immune system. Thankfully, becoming infected with anthrax is rare ...

To pinpoint this new immunization strategy, scientists inhibited human cells from producing proteasomes in one group while leaving them untouched in another, and then infected each cell culture with ...

Antibodies are best known for their ability to latch onto and neutralize bacteria, viruses and other pathogens. But these ...

Antibodies are best known for their ability to latch onto and neutralize bacteria, viruses and other pathogens. But these immune proteins can do more than that: They also activate other components of ...

One focus was multivalent vaccines that could prime the body's immune system to ward off ... enough to dissolve not only grass stains but anthrax bacteria and other germs that form hardened ...

Bacterial superorganisms must evolve defenses to fight off infections, and microbiologists found that they use a weapons cache coincidentally similar to that of the human immune system. Kamal is a ...

Now, researchers report in Science today (January 25) that they have discovered 10 more immune systems that bacteria use to protect themselves against phages and plasmids, opening up the possibility ...