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Arts & Sciences researchers discover novel process microbes use to harvest electronsCredit: Image courtesy Bose laboratory, Washington University in St. ...
Tag: Bacteriology
E. coli gain edge by changing their diets in inflammatory bowel disease
Credit: Getty Images What if you had to plan your outings based on how your stomach felt that day or ...
Study of African animals illuminates links between environment, diet and gut microbiome
Credit: Robert Pringle, associate professor of ecology and evolutionary biology at Princeton University and senior author on the study. PROVIDENCE, ...
Shark skin microbiome resists infection
Credit: © 2019 Claudia Pogoreutz A survey of the shark skin microbiome provides the first step toward understanding the remarkable ...
Helping hands from within: Live-in bacteria protect plants against infections
Credit: NIOO-KNAW Micro-organisms living inside plant roots team up to boost the plant's growth and tolerance to stress. An international ...
UMass Amherst researchers develop new technology to detect foodborne disease
Food scientist awarded two USDA grants to study better ways to identify pathogensCredit: UMass Amherst University of Massachusetts Amherst food ...
Engineers and biologists together to study microbiota-gut-brain axis
A new experimental unit built at the Politecnico di Milano within the ERC project 'MINERVA' of Horizon 2020Credit: Politecnico di ...
Using probiotics to protect honey bees against fatal disease
Credit: Western University Probiotics, beneficial microorganisms best known for promoting gut health in humans, are now being used by Western ...
How Chlamydia gain access to human cells
Publication in Nature CommunicationsCredit: HHU / Jan Galle Chlamydia are bacteria that can infect human and animal cells. Human health ...
New insight on how bacteria evolve drug resistance could lead to improved antibiotic therapies
Exploiting a strategy known as collateral sensitivity in bacteria could lead to the development of novel and sustainable treatmentsCredit: Barbosa ...
Bird bacteria is key to communication and mating
Credit: Nicole M. Gerlach Birds use odor to identify other birds, and researchers at Michigan State University have shown that ...
Turning a dangerous toxin into a biosensor
Credit: Chan Cao, EPFL Some types of bacteria have the ability to punch holes into other cells and kill them. ...
A weapon to make a superbug to become more deadly
Professor Chen and his team carried out experiments to compare the survival rates of the mice infected with different bacterial ...
Antibiotics with novel mechanism of action discovered
Credit: Matthias Urfer, UZH The rapid emergence of antimicrobial resistance is a matter of global concern. According to the World ...
Bacterial lifestyle alters the evolution of antibiotic resistance
Credit: Vaughn Cooper, Ph.D. PITTSBURGH, Oct. 23, 2019 - How bacteria live -- whether as independent cells or in a ...
Stingless bee species depend on a complex fungal community to survive
A report published in PLOS ONE describes key roles of various microorganisms in the development of the larvae of Scaptotrigona ...
Single mutation dramatically changes structure and function of bacteria’s transporter proteins
Study of E. coli bacteria may provide clues about drug resistanceCredit: Nathaniel Traaseth and Ampon Sae Her (CC BY 4.0) ...
Transient and long-term disruption of gut microbes after antibiotics
Antibiotic treatment can disrupt the gut microbiome at the strain level, with changes lasting as long as 6 monthsCredit: UAB ...
DNA-reeling bacteria yield new insight on how superbugs acquire drug-resistance
A new imaging method invented at Indiana University leads to a discovery about how bacteria use thin hair-like surface appendages ...
Lifestyle is a threat to gut bacteria: Ötzi proves it
A study that was published today in Cell Host & Microbe explored for the first time the variation and evolution ...