Human antibiotic use threatens endangered wild chimpanzees
Antimicrobial resistant bacteria getting into watershedCredit: Thomas Gillespie It's well established that infectious disease is the greatest threat to the ...
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Value from sewage? New technology makes pig farming more environmentally friendly
Credit: Okinawa Prefecture Livestock and Grassland Research Center. Anyone who lives in Okinawa, a subtropical island in Japan, has an ...
From toxic ions to single-atom copper
A more efficient, safer alternative to sourcing copper via bacteriaCredit: University of Houston Copper remains one of the single most ...
Stress test finds cracks in the resistance of harmful hospital bugs
Credit: John Innes Centre Research has identified critical factors that enable dangerous bacteria to spread disease by surviving on surfaces ...
Fighting harmful bacteria with nanoparticles
New weapons against antibiotic resistanceCredit: Empa In the arms race "mankind against bacteria", bacteria are currently ahead of us. Our ...
Nearly half a million dollars to fund a research chair to ensure food safety and quality
Funding for a new research chair directed by INRS Professor Monique LacroixCredit: Christian Fleury (INRS) What are the antimicrobial effects ...
Antibiotics protect apples from fire blight, but do they destroy the native microbiome?
Credit: Anna Wallis Like humans, certain plants are treated with antibiotics to ward off pathogens and protect the host. Saving ...
Monkeys are less cuddly with each other when dealing with an infection, study finds
Credit: Purdue University photo/Brandi Wren Brandi Wren was studying social distancing and infections before masking tape marks appeared on the ...
Probiotic Lactobacillus acidophilus shows promise for treating inflammatory bowel disease and other
Probiotic strain LA1 has a therapeutic effect that both prevents and treats intestinal inflammatory disorders caused by "leaky gut," report ...
Can cirrhosis of the liver be treated with faeces transplantation?
Researchers from Aarhus University and Aarhus University Hospital replace sick intestinal bacteria with intestinal bacteria from healthy donors in a ...
As plant/animal diversity wanes, is microbial life changing too? A perilously ‘profound Ignorance’
The unknown direction and pace of change in microbial -- including viral -- biodiversity may have deep consequences for all ...
Quality and quantity of enrichments influence well-being of aquaculture fishes
Credit: Pekka Hyvärinen/Luke Collaborative research of the University of Jyvaskyla and Natural Research Institute Finland presents new evidence of the ...
$3M awarded to orthopedics researcher to study role of gut microbiome on osteoarthritis
Michael Zuscik, Ph.D., says the research could lead to the first disease-modifying treatment for patients with osteoarthritisCredit: Michael Zuscik, PhD ...
More than $700,000 from CIHR to study the bacteria that causes meningitis
Understanding the mechanism of pathogenesis of nasopharyngeal bacteria could lead to innovative treatment optionsCredit: Christian Fleury (INRS) Professor Frédéric Veyrier ...