Superbug killer: New nanotech destroys bacteria and fungal cells
Nanothin antimicrobial coating could prevent and treat potentially deadly infectionsCredit: RMIT University Researchers have developed a new superbug-destroying coating that ...
Tag: Bacteriology
Inside the protein channel that keeps bacteria alive
Credit: Laboratory of Molecular Electron Microscopy at The Rockefeller University Almost all bacteria rely on the same emergency valves--protein channels ...
3D imaging creates molecular maps of hidden microbial communities on coral reefs
Credit: Dr. Ben Mueller Researchers from the University of Hawai'i (UH) at Mānoa, University of British Columbia (UBC), San Diego ...
A protein with a dual role: Both repair and mutation
Credit: © Terence Strick The Mfd protein repairs bacterial DNA, but can also, to scientists' surprise, promote mutation. Bacterial mutations ...
Houston flooding polluted reefs more than 100 miles offshore
Flower Garden Banks fouled by runoff from 2017's Harvey and 2016's Tax Day floodsCredit: Photo by Carsten Grupstra/Rice University HOUSTON ...
Rising Sika deer populations linked to bovine TB infections
Credit: Benjamin Lecomte New research suggests Ireland's increasing populations of Sika deer may be linked to local outbreaks of TB ...
Plant, animal surfaces inspire infection-proof engineered implants
Some natural surfaces, like insect wings, have evolved to develop bactericidal features, which researchers hope to translate into health care ...
DNA methylation from bacteria & mircobiome using nanopore technology discovered
Credit: Mount Sinai Health System Journal Name: Nature Methods Title of the Article: Discovering multiple types of DNA methylation from ...
How pathogenic bacteria weather the slings and arrows of infection
Credit: Sergia Filipe Infectious diseases are a leading cause of global mortality. During an infection, bacteria experience many different stresses ...
Away with the bad cliché: Bacterial complexity is often underestimated
Credit: Nina Lautenschlaeger The project is one of thirteen priority programs approved by the Senate of the German Research Foundation ...
Preconditions for life already 3.5 billion years ago
For the first time, organic molecules could be detected in such old liquids as possible nutrients for primordial microbesCredit: Volker ...
Stopping the sickness: Protein may be key to blocking a nauseating bacterium
Credit: WSU PULLMAN, Wash. - Washington State University researchers have discovered a protein that could be key to blocking the ...
‘Bottom-up’ approach needed to study freshwater blooms
A national research team urges more complete study of harmful cyanobacteriaCredit: Midge Eliassen HANOVER, N.H. - March 30, 2021 - ...
When synthetic evolution rhymes with natural diversity
Credit: Parys/GMI/UNC-Chapel Hill Researchers at GMI - Gregor Mendel Institute of Molecular Plant Biology of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, ...
What is killing bald eagles in the U.S.?
Credit: Susan Wilde Bald eagles, as well as other wildlife, have been succumbing to a mysterious neurodegenerative disease in the ...
MIT engineers make filters from tree branches to purify drinking water
Prototypes tested in India show promise as a low-cost, natural filtration optionCredit: Courtesy: N.R. Fuller, Sayo Studio The interiors of ...
Genome sequenced for pesky pumpkin pathogen
Credit: Montgomery Flack URBANA, Ill. - Pumpkin growers dread the tiny tan scabs that form on their fruit, each lesion ...
Repurposed heart and flu drugs may help body fight sepsis
Higher platelet counts linked to better outcomes for patients with staph sepsis; repurposed drugs that protect platelets improve survival of ...
Shining light to make hydrogen
ITQB NOVA researchers engineer light-driven bacterial factories to produce hydrogenCredit: Inês Cardoso Pereira; Mónica Martins Decarbonizing the economy and achieving ...
Beware of fellow bacteria bearing gifts: Skoltech research presents new potential antimicrobial agen
Credit: Pavel Odinev/Skoltech Skoltech researchers examined the antibiotic compounds that employ a 'Trojan horse' strategy to get into a bacterial ...