The original antigenic sin: How childhood infections could shape pandemics
Credit: UPMC PITTSBURGH, Feb. 18, 2021 - A child's first influenza infection shapes their immunity to future airborne flu viruses--including ...
Tag: Microbiology
Waste into wealth: Harvesting useful products from microbial growth
Credit: The Biodesign Institute at Arizona State university Ancient alchemists dreamed of transforming base materials like lead into gold and ...
Insight about tumor microenvironment could boost cancer immunotherapy
Credit: UPMC, created with BioRender.com PITTSBURGH, Feb. 15, 2021 - A paper published today in Nature shows how chemicals in ...
Scientists identify how harmless gut bacteria “turn bad”
Credit: University of Bath An international team of scientists has determined how harmless E. coli gut bacteria in chickens can ...
Ebola is a master of disguise
Faculty of Medicine team from University of Ottawa have discovered a druggable pathway the virus uses to trick its way ...
Insilico announces MolGrow — a new generative model for hierarchical molecular generation
Insilico presented its new molecular generation model at the 35th AAAI Conference on Artificial IntelligenceCredit: Insilico Medicine February 11, 2021 ...
Infectious disease causes long-term changes to frog’s microbiome
Credit: Andrea Jani Just as beneficial microbes in the human gut can be affected by antibiotics, diet interventions and other ...
Researchers explore how to protect gut integrity to improve outcomes in blood cancers
Cancer researchers at MUSC Hollings Cancer Center discovered that a single strain of Bacteroides fragilis significantly reduced graft-versus-host disease by ...
Hidden conflict in the mutually beneficial relationship between legumes and rhizobia
Credit: K. Quides Orange, Calif. - The mutually beneficial relationship between legumes and rhizobia, the nitrogen-fixing soil bacteria that make ...
Gulls, sentinels of bacteria in the environment
Seagulls birds can spread antibiotic-resistant bacteria that circulate in the wildCredit: Marta Cerdà (CReSA-IRTA) Gulls are one of the main ...
Spanish Journal of Soil Science selects Frontiers as first publishing partner
Credit: SJSS Open access society journal the Spanish Journal of Soil Science (SJSS) has chosen Frontiers as its first commercial ...
Pooping out miracles: scientists reveal mechanism behind fecal microbiota transplantation
Osaka City University demonstrates success of fecal microbiota transplantation (FMT) by revealing the coordinated effort of bacteriophages (phages) and their ...
Smectite promotes probiotic biofilm formation in gut for cancer immunotherapy
Credit: Lei Dong, Nanjing University Scientists from Nanjing University and the University of Macau have devised a new approach to ...
The chemistry lab inside cells
A research team led by Osaka University has identified the protein used by the body to convert amino acids into ...
UMass Amherst researchers gain insight into the biology of a deadly fungus
Bd's actin structures likely play roles in causing skin disease threatening amphibians worldwideCredit: UMass Amherst Researchers at the University of ...
What rules govern the structure of membraneless organelles?
A study in Nature Communications outlines physical rules regulating the architecture of these liquid organellesCredit: Taranpreet Kaur BUFFALO, N.Y. -- ...
HIV: an innovative therapeutic breakthrough to optimize the immune system
A therapeutic approach to restore the effectiveness of immune cellsCredit: INRS Prompted by the need to improve conventional treatments for ...
Winner-takes-all synthetic gene circuit process opens new pathways to disease treatment
Division of synthetic gene circuit workloads will make therapy more effective.Credit: Graphic created by Xiaojun Tian/ASU. A new process for ...
Fingerprint for the formation of nitrous oxide emissions
Scientists succeeded in studying emissions of the greenhouse gas N2O under the influence of environmental impacts in an unprecedented level ...
W.M. Keck Foundation awards CSU $1 million to study rare sugars fundamental to biology
Credit: John Eisele/CSU Photography A multidisciplinary team including an analytical chemist, an ecosystem scientist and two microbiologists at Colorado State ...