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Pregnancy leads to an eruption of physiological and metabolic changes in the body. Among many of these changes are dramatic fluctuations in the immune system, but how these changes may take place has alluded scientists until now.

Blue cheese can be yellow, white, orange and green, all while maintaining the same texture and flavor, more or less.

The spread of the fungal disease wheat blast across the world could reduce global wheat production by 13% until 2050, report researchers.

A natural mechanism used by bacteria to protect themselves from viral attacks – by self-destructing – could be used to fight bacterial infections and antibiotic resistance.

Researchers discovered that a large proportion of lupus patients have antibodies to a protein called “Sm”, which is tightly linked to worse disease outcomes.

Food scientists show that a standard quality test used for raw, organic milk is insufficient for distinguishing between specific groups of bacteria, suggesting that the criteria for determining milk quality at processing plants needs to be updated.

Research from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) sheds new light on how to access the sugars locked up in plants to produce petroleum-free fuels, chemicals, and medicines.

Using a database of over 60,000 microorganisms curated by researchers from across the globe, the new search tool instantly matches microbes to the metabolites they produce.

Some immune cells in our bodies see their "killer instinct" restricted after entering solid tumors, but it can be reawakened, reports a new study.

A new "bubble" delivery system for CRISPR-Cas9 could enable cells to undergo gene editing while in the body, in a step towards programmable delivery that eliminates the need to suppress a patient's immune system.