UMass Amherst grad student awarded fellowship for food allergy research
USDA program focuses on developing next generation of food scientistsCredit: UMass Amherst University of Massachusetts Amherst food science Ph.D. candidate ...
Tag: Microbiology
Long COVID and severe COVID-19 infections associated with Epstein-Barr virus reactivation
Credit: Jeffrey E. Gold, Ramazan A. Okyay, Warren E. Licht, and David J. Hurley Two recently published studies available on ...
How does the structure of cytolysins influence their activity?
Credit: Jillian Nickel Although Enterococcus faecalis is usually an innocuous member of the bacterial community in the human gut, it ...
Traditional Japanese food may hold building blocks of COVID-19 treatments
Credit: Part of Figure is adopted from Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications Volume 570, 17 September 2021, Pages 21-25. © ...
Tiny organisms shed big light on ocean nutrients
Credit: Photo by Debra Lomas As the world warms, sweeping changes in marine nutrients seem like an expected consequence of ...
Fully booked at the bottom of the sea: There seems no room for new bacteria on sand grains
Bacteria on the sand on the ocean floor do not change between the seasons. Presumably, there is simply no room ...
Virginia Tech’s COVID-19 testing demonstrates power, versatility of academic labs
Credit: Clayton Metz/Virginia Tech In the early days of the pandemic, scientists at Virginia Tech created a COVID-19 testing laboratory ...
15,000-year-old viruses discovered in Tibetan glacier ice
Most of the viruses were previously unknown to humans, study findsCredit: Image courtesy Lonnie Thompson, The Ohio State University COLUMBUS, ...
No IgA leads to intestinal inflammation in mice
Credit: Department of Immunology, TMDU Tokyo, Japan - While researchers have known for years that immunoglobulin A (IgA) is important ...
A simple compound to control complex gut microbes
Credit: RIKEN Researchers at the RIKEN Center for Integrative Medical Sciences (IMS) have discovered that acetate, a major metabolite produced ...
US$3 million grant to the University of Surrey for research into nature of time and life itself
Jim Al-Khalili and Dr Andrea Rocco from the University of Surrey, are to lead a major US$3m new research project ...
Study examines the role of deep-sea microbial predators at hydrothermal vents
Researchers emphasize the need for baseline information of microbial food websCredit: Image credit: OET/Nautilus Live The hydrothermal vent fluids from ...
Kelp for corn? Illinois scientists demystify natural products for crops
Credit: University of Illinois URBANA, Ill. - Corn growers can choose from a wide array of products to make the ...
A new avenue for fighting drug-resistant bacteria
Targeting an RNA sequence in pathogenic bacteria could make them more sensitive to antibioticsCredit: Christian Fleury (INRS) A small regulatory ...
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