Heme is not just for Impossible Burgers
Variation in how animals and bacteria use heme reveals potential target for new antibioticsCredit: (Courtesy of Robert Kranz) It took ...
Tag: Bacteriology
Successful DNA replication in cyanobacteria depends on the circadian clock
Cyanobacteria whose circadian clock had been misaligned fail to finish DNA replication after dark, with possible implications for understanding how ...
Zebrafish brain shows that new neurons are formed in the brain in a coordinated manner
Credit: Tel Aviv University Using Zebrafish, researchers from the School of Neurobiology, Biochemistry and Biophysics at the Faculty of Life ...
New material to treat wounds can protect against resistant bacteria
First successful implementation of new antibacterial technologyCredit: Anna-Lena Lundqvist/Chalmers Researchers at Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, have developed a new ...
Mapping citrus microbiomes: The first step to finding plant-microbiome treasures
Credit: Tess Deyett Due to their complexity and microscopic scale, plant-microbe interactions can be quite elusive. Each researcher focuses on ...
Stop the genetic presses!
Study describes new mechanism for terminating transcription of DNA into RNA in bacteriaCredit: Babitzke Laboratory and Dani Zemba, Penn State ...
Winning gene combination takes all
Credit: Image supplied by researchers in the Osbourn laboratory at the John Innes Centre Researchers have traced the remaining last ...
Archaeal enzyme that produces membrane lipids is spectacularly promiscuous
Credit: Marten Exterkate, University of Groningen Cells of all life forms are surrounded by a membrane that is made of ...
Crohn’s disease patients have specific IgG antibodies to human bacterial flagellins
Knowledge of the specific flagellins that drive the pathogenic immune response in Crohn's disease is a step toward a potential ...
Elegant constrictions in a cellular kill switch
Credit: © 2021 KAUST; Anastasia Serin The inner workings of a "self-destruct switch" present on human cells that can be ...
Ravi Sheth wins Hertz thesis prize for revolutionizing microbial research
Credit: Ravi Sheth Hertz Fellow Ravi Sheth says his lab in the Brooklyn Navy Yard is "like a Willy Wonka ...
Will your future clothes be made of algae?
Researchers at the University of Rochester and Delft University of Technology used 3D printing to create a novel, environmentally-friendly material ...
‘Pokemonas’: Bacteria related to lung parasites discovered, named after Pokémon
Credit: Marcel Dominik Solbach A research team at the University of Cologne has discovered previously undescribed bacteria in amoebae that ...
Study shows how meningitis-causing bacteria may sense fever to avoid immune killing
Credit: Francesco Righetti Researchers at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden have discovered a mechanism through which meningitis-causing bacteria can evade our ...