Environmental protection could benefit from ‘micro’ as well as ‘macro’ thinking
Credit: Luke Holman Scientists at the University of Southampton have conducted a study that highlights the importance of studying a ...
Tag: Microbiology
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 ...
RNA holds the reins in bacteria: U-M researchers observe RNA controlling protein synthesis
Credit: Surajit Chatterjee To better understand how RNA in bacteria gives rise to protein--and along the way, target these processes ...
Alliance for Cancer Gene Therapy Summit 2021 features world renowned cancer researchers advancing so
James P. Allison, PhD, Carl H. June, MD and Siddhartha Mukherjee, MD Keynote April 29 SummitCredit: Alliance for Cancer Gene ...
Scientists program microalgae’s ‘oil factory’ to produce various oils
Credit: LIU Yang and WANG Qintao By combining the 'chassis' of an oil-producing microalgae with genes from a Cuphea plant, ...
New method of artificially creating genetic switches for yeast
Credit: Masahiro Tominaga, Kenta Nozaki, Daisuke Umeno, Jun Ishii, Akihiko Kondo. A group of researchers from Kobe University and Chiba ...
Lab study solves textbook problem: How cells know their size
The answer to a basic science question could unlock the key to complex medical challengesCredit: Image from the Amodeo Lab/Dartmouth ...
$1.9 million award could keep Zika virus at bay
Project will investigate how the virus beats human defensesCredit: Rong Hai/UCR A UC Riverside virologist has won a $1.9 million ...
A tummy invader: This bacterial molecule may be key to fighting stomach cancer
Researchers from Osaka University identify a novel way of how a common bacterium can learn to live within the human ...
Popeye with a whiff of rotten eggs
Credit: Huimin Ye An international team of scientists led by microbiologists Professor Alexander Loy from the University of Vienna and ...
Childhood diet and exercise creates healthier, less anxious adults
Study in mice shows lasting effects of early-life habitsCredit: Marcell Cadney/UCR Exercise and a healthy diet in childhood leads to ...
Earth’s crust mineralogy drives hotspots for intraterrestrial life
Credit: ©Matt Kapust Below the verdant surface and organic rich soil, life extends kilometers into Earth's deep rocky crust. The ...
The tuberculosis pathogen releases its toxin by a novel protein transport system
This transport system may be widespread across many Gram-positive bacteria that contain proteins in the WXG100 superfamily. Tuberculosis kills 1 ...
Living fossils: Microbe discovered in evolutionary stasis for millions of years
Credit: Photo by Duane Moser, Desert Research Institute. It's like something out of science fiction. Research led by Bigelow Laboratory ...
Light shed on the coordination of neural stem cell activation
Credit: © Nicolas Dray, Laure Mancini and Laure Bally-Cuif, Institut Pasteur In all adult vertebrates, neural stem cells can be ...
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 ...
Ant responses to social isolation resemble those of humans
Social isolation results in changes of behavior and activity of immune and stress genesCredit: photo/©: Susanne Foitzik, JGU Ants react ...
Junctions between three cells serve as gateways for the transport of substances
Researchers at the University of Münster discover how cell contacts are dynamically remodelled during egg development in fruit flies / ...
Genome sequencing reveals a new species of bumblebee
Credit: Jennifer Geib While studying genetic diversity in bumblebees in the Rocky Mountains, USA, researchers from Uppsala University discovered a ...