Veterinary college receives $3.5 million NIH grant to develop Lyme disease vaccine
Credit: Virginia Tech Renowned tick immunobiologist Utpal Pal wants to ad apt the rabies vaccination platform to produce antibodies that ...
Tag: Bacteriology
Carb-eating bacteria under viral threat
Scientists characterize previously unknown gut reactionsCredit: (Purdue University and Seyet LLC) Strictly speaking, humans cannot digest complex carbohydrates -- that's ...
A red future for improving crop production?
Credit: Lawrence Atkin Researchers have found a way to engineer more efficient versions of the plant enzyme Rubisco by using ...
Microbiome-based technologies drive multibillion-dollar market
New research field promises to transform food production and treatment of diseases; a global panel of experts unified concepts to ...
Inside mitochondria and their fascinating genome
Credit: EPFL / Alain Herzog Mitochondria are present in all eukaryotic cells: in our cells, in mammalian cells, in the ...
A new twist on public health tick surveillance
UMass Amherst scientists to capture the outdoor locations of people with tick-borne diseasesCredit: UMass Amherst A University of Massachusetts Amherst ...
Potential drug target for dangerous E. coli infections identified
Credit: UNSW Sydney Escherichia coli, known as E. coli, are bacteria which many people associate with causing mild food poisoning, ...
Secondary variant of Photorhabdus luminescens interacts with plant roots
New form of insect-pathogenic bacterium extends the options for sustainable crop protection and biological pest control in agricultureCredit: ill./©: Nazzareno ...
Born to be wild: Fungal highways let bacteria travel in exchange for thiamine
Researchers from the University of Tsukuba find a mutualistic growth mechanism between a filamentous fungus and a bacterium that allows ...
Genome of Alexander Fleming’s original penicillin-producing mould sequenced
Credit: CABI Researchers have sequenced the genome of Alexander Fleming's penicillin mould for the first time and compared it to ...
Researcher gets $1.95 million grant to study how gut bacteria cause decline of aging immune system
Credit: Georgia State University ATLANTA--Dr. Leszek Ignatowicz, a professor in the Institute for Biomedical Sciences at Georgia State University, has ...
Magnetic ‘T-Budbots’ made from tea plants kill and clean biofilms (video)
Credit: American Chemical Society Biofilms -- microbial communities that form slimy layers on surfaces -- are difficult to treat and ...
Let them eat rocks
$4.2 million grant to uncover mysteries of deep earth-dwelling microbesCredit: (Danny Newman and Mia Maltz/UCR) UC Riverside is leading an ...
Inducing plasma in biomass could make biogas easier to produce
With the help of microwave pulses, plasma induced into polymer solutions helps break down thick material, lowering the viscosity and ...
Researchers discover a novel family of toxins used in bacterial competition
Toxic protein inhibits cell wall synthesis in rival bacteria. Discovery helps explain how pathogens cause imbalances in established microbial communities ...
New high-speed test shows how antibiotics combine to kill bacteria
Credit: Nikos Fatsis-Kavalopoulos Researchers at Uppsala University have developed a new method to determine - rapidly, easily and cheaply - ...
From plastic to protein powder
Credit: Steve Techtmann/Michigan Tech It's a well-documented fact that we have a plastic problem. Plastic is so ubiquitous in packaging, ...
Why do hospital germs bind more strongly to certain surfaces than to others?
Credit: Saarland University These results from studies in both experimental and theoretical physics may help to improve antibacterial surfaces. The ...
Princeton lab discovers small “Cain-and-Abel” molecule
Streptosactin named the first small molecule in the human microbiome to exhibit fratricidal activity.Credit: Figure courtesy of Leah Bushin. A ...
Animals’ magnetic ‘sixth’ sense may come from bacteria, new paper suggests
The question is one that has been unresolved despite 50 years of researchCredit: Photo credit: Gustavo Stahelin/University of Central Florida ...