UF Health Cancer Institute researchers have discovered a small compound produced naturally by gut bacteria that doubled the ...

Respiratory infections are among the leading causes of illness and death in the elderly, driven by immune aging, chronic ...

Some antibiotics stop bacteria from growing without actually killing them, allowing infections to return later. Scientists at ...

UF Health Cancer Institute scientists found a bacterial compound that may double lung cancer treatment effectiveness in mice.

"The air sacs in the lungs are a critical first barrier against infections in humans, but we've traditionally looked at them ...

The immune system remains seriously out-of-whack—in an inflammatory state of overactivation and impaired ...

Chronic lung infections pose a disproportionate threat to older adults, yet the biological mechanisms behind age-specific ...

A new study reveals that the notorious bacterial pathogen Pseudomonas aeruginosa must balance between effectively colonizing human airways and developing antibiotic tolerance to survive. Imagine ...

After lung transplantation, infection with Pseudomonas aeruginosa independently predicted antibody-mediated rejection (AMR), researchers found. Through a series of mouse-model studies, the researchers ...

Among healthy adults, inhaling wood smoke for 2 hours negatively impacted the lung microbiome by raising the amount of ...

A generally healthy 63-year-old man in the New England area went to the hospital with a fever, cough, and vision problems in ...

Pseudomonas aeruginosa cells (orange) growing on the mucus layer (green) of the airway mucosa. Airway epithelial cells are shown in purple. Imagine trying to settle into a new home while constantly ...