Discovery promising for millions at risk from antibiotic resistance
Credit: Professor Mark Schembri There is new hope for approximately 700,000 people who die each year from antibiotic resistant infections, ...
Tag: Bacteriology
Remains of 17th century bishop support neolithic emergence of tuberculosis
Bishop Peder Winstrup of Lund, Sweden passed away in the winter of 1679 at the age of 74 and was ...
To understand the machinery of life, this scientist breaks it on purpose
By tinkering with some of life's oldest components, a group of astrobiologists hopes to find clues about how life emerged. ...
Syphilis may have spread through Europe before Columbus
Credit: (Photo: UZH) Syphilis is a sexually transmitted disease - and while commonly dismissed due to the availability of modern ...
Programmed bacteria have something extra
Rice chemists expand genetic code of E. coli to produce 21st amino acid, giving it new abilitiesCredit: Xiao Lab/Rice University ...
SMART researchers find new way to make bacteria more sensitive to antibiotics
Study finds that exposing bacteria to hydrogen sulfide can increase antimicrobial sensitivity in bacteria that do not produce H2SCredit: Jessie ...
Secretion of sugar polymers modulates multicellularity in the bacterium Myxococcus xanthus
Fundamental research in bacterial physiologyCredit: Salim Timo Islam Research by INRS (Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique) Professor Salim Timo ...
Texas A&M researchers developing first oral anthrax vaccine for livestock, wildlife
The College of Veterinary Medicine & Biomedical Sciences team is working toward a vaccine that would be easier to deliverCredit: ...
Using physics to improve root canal efficiency
Temperature is a critical parameter in determining cleansing efficiency during a root canalCredit: Hanhui Jin WASHINGTON, August 11, 2020 -- ...
Gene therapy targets inner retina to combat blindness
Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, August 10, 2020--Gene therapy to the inner retina prevented blindness in ...
Previously undescribed lineage of Archaea illuminates microbial evolution
New group with possible symbiotic life strategyCredit: Anja Spang In a publication in Nature Communications last Friday, NIOZ scientists Nina ...
Scientists discover curious clues in the war between cf bacteria
UNC School of Medicine researchers describe in detail the different weaponry bacteria use to establish infection in the lungs of ...
Oldest enzyme in cellular respiration isolated
How microbes in the primordial atmosphere obtained energy without oxygenCredit: Uwe Dettmar for Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany In the first ...
Chemists build natural anti-cancer compound with lean new process
Scripps Research collaborators develop a way to seamlessly create the compound's complex structureCredit: Scripps Research JUPITER, FL--Scripps Research chemists Hans ...
Scientists discover new concept of bacterial gene regulation
Research team of the Cluster of Excellence "Balance of the Microverse" at the University Jena identifies new regulatory sRNA moleculesCredit: ...
Grow faster, die sooner
How growth rates influence the fitness of bacteriaCredit: Andreas Heddergott / TUM Bacteria are survival artists: When they get nutrition, ...
NTU develops peptide that makes drug-resistant bacteria sensitive to antibiotics again
Peptide also kills multidrug-resistant bacteria on its ownCredit: NTU Singapore Scientists at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) have developed ...
AI may offer a better way to ID drug-resistant superbugs
Machine learning algorithm uses high-temporal-resolution growth curves to identify pathogens with 98% accuracy and predict antibiotic resistance just as well ...
Chlamydia: Greedy for glutamine
Credit: Chair of Microbiology / University of Wuerzburg Chlamydia are bacteria that cause venereal diseases. In humans, they can only ...
New studies show how to save parasites and why it’s important
Credit: Emily Wood Parasites have a public relations problem. Unlike the many charismatic mammals, fishes and birds that receive our ...