Even bacteria need their space: Squished cells may shut down photosynthesis
Credit: Kristin A. Moore and Jeffrey C. Cameron Introverts take heart: When cells, like some people, get too squished, they ...
Tag: Bacteriology
Study reveals how long COVID-19 remains infectious on cardboard, metal and plastic
Research suggests that people may acquire the coronavirus through the air and by touching contaminated surfacesCredit: Reed Hutchinson/UCLA The virus ...
Novel bacterial acid tolerance system sheds light on development of antimicrobials
Credit: ZHAO Mohan Growth ability at acidic conditions is important to bacteria. Enteric bacteria such as Escherichia coli and Salmonella ...
Published consensus statement offers UTI treatment recommendations
TTUHSC assistant professor helps AMDA committee efforts to protect antibioticsCredit: TTUHSC They are among the most common ailments for those ...
Viewpoint: Could disease pathogens be the dark matter behind Alzheimer’s disease?
Credit: Graphic by Shireen Dooling for the Biodesign Institute at Arizona State University For researchers investigating Alzheimer's Disease (AD), a ...
Once overlooked cellular messengers could combat antibiotic resistance
Credit: Children's National Hospital Children's National Hospital researchers for the first time have isolated bacterial extracellular vesicles from the blood ...
Bacteria form biofilms like settlers form cities
New research from the University of Pennsylvania's School of Dental Medicine gives a satellite-level view of how biofilms grow and ...
Solving obesity: Could manipulating microbes offer an alternative to weight loss surgery?
Credit: Biodesign Institute at ASU Already considered a global epidemic, human obesity continues to be on the rise. According to ...
Something in the water
Brazilian study correlates consumption of contaminated water with the severity of malformations caused by the Zika virusCredit: D'Or Institute for ...
New nano strategy fights superbugs
Rice University material 'traps and zaps' floating DNA that makes bacteria resistantCredit: Illustration by Danning Zhang/Rice University HOUSTON - (March ...
Microbial DNA in patient blood may be tell-tale sign of cancer
From a simple blood draw, microbial DNA may reveal who has cancer and which type, even at early stagesCredit: Photo ...
Microbes play important role in soil’s nitrogen cycle
Credit: Vivian Wauters Under our feet, in the soil, is a wealth of microbial activity. Just like humans have different ...
Gene regulatory factors enable bacteria to kill rivals and establish symbiosis in a squid
Credit: Nate Follmer, Penn State Two factors that control the expression of a key gene required by luminescent bacteria to ...
Food scientists slice time off salmonella identification process
Credit: Mars Global Food Safety Center ITHACA, N.Y. - Researchers from Cornell University, the Mars Global Food Safety Center in ...
Scientists create model to predict multipathogen epidemics
Zooplankton study shows within-host pathogen interactions can predict epidemic severityCredit: University of Michigan HOUSTON -- (March 5, 2020) -- Diseases ...
Two-faced bacteria
Texas A&M researchers discover previously unknown response within gut microbiotaCredit: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Mar. 2020, 201916974; ...
Microbiome species interactions reveal how bacteria collaborate to cheat death
Antibiotics set up a multi-faceted experiment in your gastrointestinal systemCredit: Image is courtesy of Navid Marvi and Andres Aranda-Diaz. Baltimore, ...
Novel sepsis treatment enhances bacterial capture by neutrophil ‘traps’
New treatment developed by CHOP researchers poised to improve sepsis outcomesCredit: Kandace Gollomp, MD Philadelphia, March 5, 2020--Researchers at Children's ...
IVI and DTU to strengthen external quality assurance in the face of rising AMR in Asia
The International Vaccine Institute (IVI) and Technical University of Denmark (DTU) received a Fleming Fund Regional Grant to increase the ...
Same genes, same conditions, different transport
Bacterium shows phenotypic heterogeneity for methionine uptakeCredit: University of Groningen The bacterium Lactococcus lactis, which plays an important role in ...