New grant enables Clemson researcher to further combat widespread parasitic disease
Credit: Courtesy of Zhicheng Dou CLEMSON, South Carolina -- Biological sciences assistant professor Zhicheng Dou has received a $1.85 million ...
Tag: Bacteriology
Israeli docs strike big blow to superbugs
Hebrew University team brings hope to patients with life-threatening, drug-resistant infectionsCredit: Nathalie Balaban and Jiafeng Liu Every year in the ...
Taking one for the team: How bacteria self-destruct to fight viral infections
And how scientists might leverage bacterial immune systems to improve phage therapy against multidrug-resistant bacteriaCredit: UC San Diego Health Sciences ...
Persistence of gut microbial strains in twins, living apart after cohabitating for decades
A genomics tool can determine whether twins maintained identical gut strains, even after living apart for years.Credit: UAB BIRMINGHAM, Ala. ...
How the rice blast fungus ‘eats’ its own cell wall to launch an attack
Cells of rice blast fungus undergo major changes when it infects its host plant, which includes using the components of ...
A response key for survival of Mycoplasma genitalium in the urogenital tract uncovered
Credit: IBB-UAB Metals (iron, zinc, nickel, cobalt, etc.) participate in numerous enzymatic reactions and are essential nutrients for bacteria. Inside ...
Birds and bats have strange gut microbiomes — probably because they can fly
Credit: Holly Lutz At a time when kombucha is commonplace on cafe menus and "probiotic-fortified" has become the newest health ...
Scientists find new way to sustainably make chemicals by copying nature’s tricks
Credit: Patrik Jones/Imperial College London Researchers have copied the way organisms produce toxic chemicals without harming themselves, paving the way ...
Microbes from humics lakes produced omega-3 fatty acids from micropla
Researchers used carbon isotope labeling to follow the fate of polyethylene in the food chainCredit: The University of Jyväskylä Increasing ...
Researchers identify starting point for designing drugs that cure clostridium difficile
Scientists combined multiple advanced molecular imaging techniques to characterize and understand how C. diff toxins workCredit: Xingjian Xu and Edwin ...
First study to compare citrus varieties with combination of metabolomics and microbiome
Credit: Emily M. T. Padhi, Nilesh Maharaj, Shin-Yi Lin, Darya O. Mishchuk, Elizabeth Chin, Kris Godfrey, Elizabeth Foster, Marylou Polek, ...
How bacteria control their cell cycle
Credit: Biozentrum, University of Basel Researchers at the Biozentrum of the University have demonstrated how bacteria coordinate cell division with ...
Bacteria can ‘outsmart’ programmed cell death
Credit: Hamid Kashkar, University of Cologne Certain bacteria can override a defence mechanism of the immune system, so called programmed ...
New research shows domestic animals link virus spread among humans and wildlife
How domesticated animals hold key to spread of virusesCredit: Swansea University Our domesticated animals - both pets and livestock - ...
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