UBCO researchers suggest stool transplants can battle serious infections
Genetic analysis helps ensure successful fecal microbiota transplantsCredit: UBC Okanagan Could number two be number one when it comes to ...
Tag: Bacteriology
Ability to predict C-diff mortality nearly doubled with new guidelines
University of Houston team assesses change to severity definitionsCredit: University of Houston Clostridioides difficile infection (CDI) is the most common ...
Microbes and plants: A dynamic duo
Credit: Devin Coleman-Derr Drought stress has been a major roadblock in crop success, and this obstacle will not disappear anytime ...
Magnetic bacteria as micropumps
Credit: Photograph: Science Photo Library Cancer drugs have side effects, so for many years, scientists have been exploring ways to ...
Study shows why some people may become seriously ill from meningococcal bacteria
Credit: Francesco Righetti Researchers at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden have come one step closer toward understanding why some people become ...
Cell membranes in super resolution
Credit: (Picture: Sauer group / University of Würzburg) Expansion microscopy (ExM) enables the imaging of cells and their components with ...
SMART researchers develop customised targeting of bacteria using lysins
The discovery can help cure bacterial infections without inducing resistance or causing harm to good bacteriaCredit: Wei Lin Lee, SMART ...
Microfluidic system with cell-separating powers may unravel how novel pathogens attack
The system developed by Texas A&M researchers can separate different cell types within microdroplets.Credit: Dr. Arum Han/Texas A&M University College ...
Small molecules control bacterial resistance to antibiotics
Jena research team discovers molecule that influences the resistance of cholera bacteriaCredit: Image: Kai Papenfort Jena, Germany (27.11.2020) Antibiotics work ...
New insights into how the CRISPR immune system evolved
Credit: Ditlev E. Brodersen With new insights into how the genetic tool CRISPR - which allows direct editing of our ...
William Reznikoff, other MBL affiliates are named fellows of the AAAS
Credit: University of Chicago News Office WOODS HOLE, Mass. -- William S. Reznikoff, senior research scholar at the Marine Biological ...
Potential treatment against antibiotic-resistant bacteria causing gonorrhea and meningitis
A Canadian team from INRS has demonstrated the effectiveness of an inexpensive molecule to fight antibiotic-resistant strains of the bacteria ...
Experimental evolution reveals how bacteria gain drug resistance
Credit: RIKEN A research team at the RIKEN Center for Biosystems Dynamics Research (BDR) in Japan has succeeded in experimentally ...
Vibrations of coronavirus proteins may play a role in infection
Study suggests mechanical properties of spike proteins can predict infectivity and lethality of different coronavirusesCredit: Markus Buehler and Yiwen Hu/MIT ...
Bacteria convince their squid host to create a less hostile work environment
Credit: Moriano-Gutierrez, et al. 2020 Bacteria living symbiotically within the Hawaiian bobtail squid can direct the host squid to change ...
Solving a mystery: How the TB bacterium develops rapid resistance to antibiotics
Credit: SDSU For a slow-growing microbe that multiplies infrequently, Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the pathogen that causes tuberculosis (TB) has long puzzled ...
Microbial remedies target chemical threats in the environment
Credit: The Biodesign Institute at Arizona State University Across America, hazardous waste sites pose an ongoing threat to human and ...
Tropical peatland conservation could protect humans from new diseases
Credit: Suzanne Turnock / Borneo Nature Foundation Conservation of tropical peatlands could reduce the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic and ...
Scientists discover secret to superbug’s virulence in diabetic infections
Credit: UPMC PITTSBURGH, Nov. 13, 2020 - The bodies of people with uncontrolled diabetes appear to be the perfect environment ...
Light shed on the atomic resolution structure of phage DNA tube
A methodological milestoneCredit: Visualization: Barth van Rossum, FMP Given that phages are able to destroy bacteria, they are of particular ...