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 ...
Tag: Microbiology
SMART develops rapid deterministic lateral displacement assay to assess immune response
Novel DLD assay is capable of rapidly assessing host inflammatory response, allowing patients exhibiting a life-threatening hyper-aggressive immune response to ...
Scientists find evidence that novel coronavirus infects the mouth’s cells
NIH-funded findings point to a role for saliva in SARS-CoV-2 transmissionCredit: Paola Perez, PhD, Warner Lab, NIDCR An international team ...
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 ...
Small robot swimmers that heal themselves from damage (video)
Credit: American Chemical Society Living tissue can heal itself from many injuries, but giving similar abilities to artificial systems, such ...
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 ...
Copper foam as a highly efficient, durable filter for reusable masks and air cleaners
Credit: Adapted from Nano Letters 2021, DOI: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.1c00050 During the COVID-19 pandemic, people have grown accustomed to wearing facemasks, but ...
Rodenticides in the environment pose threats to birds of prey
Credit: Oliver Krone/Leibniz-IZW Over the past decades, the increased use of chemicals in many areas led to environmental pollution - ...
How UK, South Africa coronavirus variants escape immunity
TACC's Frontera supercomputer aids in building infection models of COVID-19 variantsCredit: Google Images All viruses mutate as they make copies ...
Containing the coronavirus effects on the nervous system
INRS research could prevent infection of nervous system cells by coronaviruses, such as the one responsible for COVID-19Credit: INRS A ...
Fungal species causing candidiasis use distinct infection strategies
Credit: IRB Barcelona Candidiasis is a fungal infection caused by a yeast called Candida. It is a serious global health problem and it can be vaginal, ...
Variances in critical protein may guide fate of those infected with SARS CoV-2
Credit: Graphic by Shireen Dooling The Biodesign Institute at Arizona State University Of the many perplexing questions surrounding SARS CoV-2, ...
Phytol may be promising for eco-friendly agrochemicals to control root-knot nematodes
Credit: Taketo Fujimoto, Hiroshi Abe, Takayuki Mizukubo, and Shigemi Seo Root-knot nematodes (RKNs, Meloidogyne spp.) infect a broad range of ...
Oncotarget: Predictors of immunotherapy benefit in Merkel cell carcinoma
Dr. Glenn J. Hanna from CCR/NCI in Bethesda, MD as well as The Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston Massachusetts said, ...
New discoveries on deadly fungus – might be a key for treatment
Credit: Jan-Peter Kasper, University of Jena Aspergillus fumigatus kills as many people as malaria and tuberculosis, but is less known. ...
CU cancer researcher wins two awards to study drug-resistant cancer cells
University of Colorado Boulder researcher Sabrina L. Spencer, PhD., recently won the Damon Runyon-Rachleff Innovation Award (from the Damon Runyon ...
Chemical cocktail creates new avenues for generating muscle stem cells
The advance could lead to the development of stem cell-based therapies for muscle loss or damage due to injury, age ...