A flash of light to identify tumors: the results of the VIBRA project of the Politecnico di Milano
Funded by ERC and just completed, the project uncovers the cellular mechanisms underlying various diseases thanks to a new optical ...
Tag: Microbiology
Small RNA as a central player in infections
Credit: (Image: Chair of Molecular Infection Biology II / University of Wuerzburg / SCIGRAPHIX) More than half of the world's ...
Protein that keeps immune system from freaking out could form basis for new therapeutics
Treatment with a peptide that mimics the naturally occurring protein GIV prevents immune overreaction, supports a mechanism critical for survival ...
Research demonstrates microbiome transmissibility in perennial ryegrass
Credit: Ian Tannenbaum Scientist Ian Tannenbaum has spent most of his career working in clinical microbiology but was excited to ...
Immune failure can cause serious COVID-19
Persons with critical corona-disease may have antibodies blocking the body´s most important defence mechanisms.Credit: Ingvild Festervoll Melien While most people ...
Scientists shed new light on viruses’ role in coral bleaching
Credit: (photo by Andrew Thurber, OSU). CORVALLIS, Ore. - Scientists at Oregon State University have shown that viral infection is ...
To make mini-organs grow faster, give them a squeeze
Study finds that compressing cells, and crowding their contents, can coax them to grow and divideCredit: Yiwei Li The closer ...
Bacterial toxin with healing effect
Research team from University of Jena (Germany) uncovers that a toxic substance found in Staphylococcus aureus stimulates tissue regenerationCredit: Jens ...
USask VIDO-InterVac expands international role to test antiviral compounds against COVID-19
Credit: David Stobbe The Vaccine and Infectious Disease Organization-International Vaccine Centre (VIDO-InterVac) at the University of Saskatchewan (USask) has been ...
Scientists shed new light on mechanisms of malaria parasite motility
The first X-ray structures of the molecular complex that allows malaria parasites to spread disease highlight a novel target for ...
On the trail of novel infectious agents in wildlife
First scientific description of a previously unknown Streptococcus species of Chacoan peccariesCredit: K. Mühldorfer, IZW The species richness of zoo ...
New virtual reality software allows scientists to ‘walk’ inside cells
Credit: Alexandre Kitching Virtual reality software which allows researchers to 'walk' inside and analyse individual cells could be used to ...
For when the chips are down — preserving UK soil microbial biodiversity for agriculture
New UK Crop Microbiome Cryobank to safeguard future research and facilitate sustainable production of UK's six major food cropsCredit: Pixabay ...
The choroid plexus: A conduit for prenatal inflammation?
These tiny fronds of tissue protect the developing brain -- but may also pass on inflammation from the motherCredit: Shipley ...
New research provides fresh hope for children suffering from rare muscle diseases
Credit: Taylor & Francis Results of an international study published today in Autophagy and led by researchers from Monash University, ...
Study finds fungal disease of snakes in 19 states, Puerto Rico
Credit: Photo by L. Brian Stauffer CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- In a collaborative effort between scientists and personnel on military bases ...
Deep-seabed mining lastingly disrupts the seafloor food web
Especially the microbial part of the carbon cycle is affectedCredit: ROV-Team/GEOMAR The deep sea is far away and hard to ...
Coronavirus antibodies last at least three months after infection, study suggests
Credit: Temerty Faculty of Medicine Coronavirus antibodies can last at least three months after a person becomes infected with the ...
Setting a TRAP for pandemic-causing viruses
Credit: Hiroshi Murakami A research team led by Nagoya University scientists in Japan has developed an approach that can quickly ...
Jennifer Doudna wins 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Credit: UC Berkeley Biochemist Jennifer Doudna, a professor at UC Berkeley and faculty scientist at the Department of Energy's Lawrence ...