Surprising players in acute liver failure point to potential treatment
Gut microbes and host cells jointly contribute to the progression of this mostly incurable diseaseCredit: Weizmann Institute of Science Acute ...
Tag: Microbiology
Gut bacteria associated with animal-based diet may mitigate risk of cardiovascular disease
Credit: Veronika Kivenson of the OSU College of Science provided this image, created with BioRender.com and published in mSystems. CORVALLIS, ...
Endangered trees in Guam contribute to ecosystem diversity and health
Credit: University of Guam Research at the University of Guam has shown that the decomposition of leaf litter from three ...
High fat or ‘ketogenic’ diets could prevent, reverse heart failure
Credit: Saint Louis University ST. LOUIS - Research from Saint Louis University finds that high fat or "ketogenic" diets could ...
Can scientists take the STING out of common respiratory viruses?
Led by Stan Lemon, MD, researchers at the UNC School of Medicine and GSK colleagues discovered that the majority of ...
Timeline of early eukaryotic evolution unveiled
Credit: Utrecht University, IRB Barcelona. One of the most important and puzzling events in the evolution of life has been ...
Scientists establish NanDeSyn Database to support international cooperation on industrial microalgae
Credit: QIBEBT Industrial oil-producing microalgae can use light energy to convert carbon dioxide and water into oils on a large ...
SPOTlight supercharges cell studies
Rice, Baylor College of Medicine platform expands cell sorting via fluorescent tagsCredit: Illustration by Jihwan Lee/Rice University HOUSTON - (Oct. ...
New tricks for old antibiotics
Researchers uncovered that a group of antibiotics confers protection against sepsis, beyond their ability to directly control the infectionCredit: ©Joana ...
A promising discovery could lead to better treatment for Hepatitis C
Canadian researchers at INRS have identified a critical role played by a cellular protein in the progression of Hepatitis C ...
Cancer-linked enzyme mechanism newly characterized in study
New research on previously undescribed biochemical process could contribute to broader quest toward more-targeted cancer therapiesCredit: Image courtesy Matthew Bochman ...
Microbial diversity below seafloor is as rich as on Earth’s surface
Credit: Image courtesy of JAMSTEC. KINGSTON, R.I., -- October 20, 2020 -- For the first time, researchers have mapped the ...
Computational study reveals how Ebola nucleocapsid stabilizes
All-atom simulations of the Ebola virus nucleocapsid reveal how a helical assembly, indispensable for viral infection, stabilizes the virusCredit: Tanya ...
This red light means ‘go’ for medical discoveries
Scientists develop a better, redder biosensor for biological researchCredit: Courtesy Ai lab With a little tweak of the color palette, ...
Gut bacteria could be responsible for side effect of Parkinson’s drug
Credit: University of Groningen Bacteria in the small intestine can deaminate levodopa, the main drug that is used to treat ...
Immune protein orchestrates daily rhythm of squid-bacteria symbiotic relationship
Credit: Eric Koch Nearly every organism hosts a collection of symbiotic microbes--a microbiome. It is now recognized that microbiomes are ...
NYU Abu Dhabi study discovers how some single-cell organisms control microbiomes
This discovery paves the way for future research into climate change and understanding of evolution.Credit: NYU Abu Dhabi Abu Dhabi, ...
Max Planck-Humboldt Research Award 2020 presented in life sciences for the first time
Roberto Bonasio is awarded the Max Planck Humboldt-Research Award 2020, Luciano Marraffini receives the Max Planck-Humboldt MedalCredit: Daniel Burke Molecular ...
Two Nobel Prize wins for Max Planck Society
Emmanuelle Charpentier honoured with the 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, Reinhard Genzel wins Nobel Prize in PhysicsCredit: MPG This year, ...
Those funky cheese smells allow microbes to ‘talk’ to and feed each other
Researchers discover that bacteria that ripen cheese respond to the volatile gases produced by cheese fungiCredit: Adam Detour MEDFORD/SOMERVILLE, Mass. ...