Scientists find a place on Earth where there is no life
Credit: Puri López-García Living beings, especially microorganisms, have a surprising ability to adapt to the most extreme environments on our ...
Tag: Bacteriology
Magnesium deprivation stops pathogen growth
Credit: University of Basel, Biozentrum When pathogens invade the cells, our body combats them using various methods. Researchers at the ...
Building better bacteriophage to combat antibiotic-resistant bacteria
Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, November 21, 2019-Researchers are pursuing engineered bacteriophage as alternatives to antibiotics ...
Scientists discover the origin of a microbial infection with lethal effects
Universitat Rovira I Virgili researchers are taking part in this research work that is paving the way to finding effective ...
Melanin-producing Streptomyces are more likely to colonize plants
Credit: Phytobiomes Journal Plant growth-promoting Streptomyces assemble into the internal, root endophytic compartments of a wide variety of plants around ...
Scientists use modern technology to understand how ochre paint was created in pictographs
Ochre, one of Earth's oldest naturally occurring materials, was often seen as a vivid red paintCredit: University of Missouri Ochre, ...
25 years of learning to combat cervical cancer
Credit: (A Cancer Journal for Clinicians (2018). Volume 68, Issue: 6, Pages: 394-424. doi: 10.3322/caac.21492) According to the World Health ...
Antibiotics from the sea
International research team taps potential source of new antibioticsCredit: Christian Jogler Nearly three-quarters of all clinically relevant antibiotics are natural ...
Dozens of potential new antibiotics discovered with free online app
Credit: Photo by L. Brian Stauffer CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- A new web tool speeds the discovery of drugs to kill ...
Subtle changes, big effects
Credit: iStock (CC BY 4.0) "Does the flap of a butterfly's wings in Brazil set off a tornado in Texas?" ...
CSU lands $1.2 million in NIH funding to advance work on a new tuberculosis vaccine
Credit: William A. Cotton/CSU Photography A team of researchers in the Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Pathology at Colorado State ...
Bacterial protein impairs important cellular processes
Credit: Credit: AG Römer Areas of skin that have been damaged by an injury are ideal niches for the concentration ...
Architecture of a bacterial power plant decrypted
Credit: Rudolf-Virchow-Zentrum / University of Würzburg Both humans and many other creatures need oxygen for survival. In the conversion of ...
Simulation reveals how bacterial organelle converts sunlight to chemical energy
Credit: Photo by L. Brian Stauffer CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- Scientists have simulated every atom of a light-harvesting structure in a ...
University of Florida scientists advance citrus greening research efforts
Credit: The American Phytopathological Society Citrus greening, a devastating disease, has reduced Florida citrus production by 70%, according to most ...
Targeted gene modification in animal pathogenic chlamydia
Microscopic picture of a Guinea pig cell with Chlamydia caviae bacteria inclusion. The human pathogenic bacterium Chlamydia trachomatis is the ...
Researchers discover new toxin that impedes bacterial growth
Shows promise of impacting superbug infectious diseasesCredit: McMaster University HAMILTON, ON (Nov. 6, 2019) - An international research collaboration has ...
NUS engineers invent smartphone device that detects harmful algae in 15 minutes
Portable, easy-to-use and low-cost technology could be used by fish farmers to monitor water quality quickly and convenientlyCredit: National University ...
Hospital disinfectants struggling to kill C. diff bacteria colonies
Clorox comes close, but none completely eliminates superbugCredit: University of Houston The deadly and notoriously stubborn superbug, Clostridioides difficile (C. ...
Solution of the high-resolution crystal structure of stress proteins from Staphylococcus
A paper was published by Kazan Federal University in the Journal of Structural BiologyCredit: Kazan Federal University Project leader, Head ...
