A rock with many perspectives
Credit: Schulz, GFZ The Alum Shale of Northern Europe not only has an eventful history of formation, connected with the ...
Tag: Bacteriology
How does the structure of cytolysins influence their activity?
Credit: Jillian Nickel Although Enterococcus faecalis is usually an innocuous member of the bacterial community in the human gut, it ...
Traditional Japanese food may hold building blocks of COVID-19 treatments
Credit: Part of Figure is adopted from Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications Volume 570, 17 September 2021, Pages 21-25. © ...
A simple compound to control complex gut microbes
Credit: RIKEN Researchers at the RIKEN Center for Integrative Medical Sciences (IMS) have discovered that acetate, a major metabolite produced ...
Researchers surprised to find bacterial parasites behind rise of ‘super bugs’
Credit: Vaughn Cooper PITTSBURGH, July 16, 2021 - For the first time ever, researchers from the University of Pittsburgh School ...
UBCO researchers light the way to cleaner water
Fluorescence lighting helps detect impurities in waterCredit: UBC Okanagan Shining a beam of light into potentially contaminated water samples may ...
A new avenue for fighting drug-resistant bacteria
Targeting an RNA sequence in pathogenic bacteria could make them more sensitive to antibioticsCredit: Christian Fleury (INRS) A small regulatory ...
A new sensitive tool for the efficient quantification of plant disease susceptibility
Credit: APS While several biology techniques have undergone significant technical advances that have allowed their high-throughput implementation, assessing the resistance ...
The two-thousand-year-old mystery of the havoc-wreaking worm
New research reveals that we know less about the history-altering shipworm than we thoughtCredit: Barry Goodell AMHERST, Mass. - Humans ...
Neonatal meningitis: the immaturity of microbiota and epithelial barriers implicated
Credit: Biology of Infection Unit, Institut Pasteur Meningitis is associated with high mortality and frequently causes severe sequelae. Newborn infants ...
Computer-assisted biology: Decoding noisy data to predict cell growth
Credit: Institute of Industrial Science, the University of Tokyo Tokyo, Japan - Scientists from The University of Tokyo Institute of ...
Biomaterial vaccines ward off broad range of bacterial infections and septic shock
A new vaccine technology combining capture of bacterial pathogens with effective immune-reprogramming biomaterials could be applied to a broad spectrum ...
More ancestral enzyme
Molecular evolution of enzyme beyond recruit hypothesisCredit: Seiya Watanabe, Ehime University The aconitase superfamily currently contains four functional enzymes including ...
Creating a lab mangrove helps to identify new bacteria
Credit: © 2021 Morgan Bennett Smith A pioneering cultivation strategy that recreates a mangrove environment in the lab has enabled ...
Secret to weathering climate change lies at our feet
New research on the microbiome of grass shows that the future lies with healthy bacteriaCredit: Richard Wellenberger/iStock/Getty Images Plus AMHERST, ...
Keeping bacteria under lock and key
UD researchers and collaborators report advances in biological containmentCredit: Photo by Kathy Atkinson Scientists and engineers are constantly looking for ...
Asymptomatic adults may be reservoirs of Streptococcus pneumoniae
Study by ITQB NOVA researchers identifies role played by adults in the carriage of pneumococciCredit: ITQB NOVA Streptococcus pneumoniae is ...
How ethane-consuming archaea pick up their favorite dish
Scientists of Bremen sucessfully decoded the structure of the enzyme responsible for ethane fixationCredit: Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology/ ...
Plastic drapes reduce hypothermia in premature babies
Study: Plastic better than cloth for low birth-weight newbornsCredit: University of Houston Most babies born prematurely or with health problems ...
Hackensack meridian CDI scientists discover new tuberculosis treatment pathway
Credit: Hackensack Meridian Health June 29, 2021 - Nutley, NJ - Scientists from the Hackensack Meridian Center for Discovery and ...
