Microbes living on air a global phenomenon
Credit: Photo: Belinda Ferrari In their first follow-up to a high-profile 2017 study which showed microbes in Antarctica have a ...
Tag: Microbiology
Microbial ecology yields new insights for future shipwreck conservation
Shipwreck harbors a rich spatially structured microbial communityCredit: John McCord, Coastal Studies Institute Shipwrecks act as artificial reefs and provide ...
Evolution in real-time: How bacteria adapt to their hosts
Some bacteria become increasingly infectious when they have to move from cell to cell in order to surviveCredit: © Patrick ...
World film premiere: Watch cell infected by tuberculosis die
One-of-a-kind video shows how bacterium annihilates the body's immune cells.Credit: NTNU Centre for Molecular Inflammation Research (CEMIR) The tuberculosis bacterium ...
Discovery promising for millions at risk from antibiotic resistance
Credit: Professor Mark Schembri There is new hope for approximately 700,000 people who die each year from antibiotic resistant infections, ...
Remains of 17th century bishop support neolithic emergence of tuberculosis
Bishop Peder Winstrup of Lund, Sweden passed away in the winter of 1679 at the age of 74 and was ...
The flax wilt agent has been sequenced
Researchers to sequence and assemble genome of Fusarium oxysporum f.sp. lini, a highly destructive fungal parasite infecting flaxCredit: Peter the ...
To understand the machinery of life, this scientist breaks it on purpose
By tinkering with some of life's oldest components, a group of astrobiologists hopes to find clues about how life emerged. ...
Research gets to the heart of organ shape in nature
Credit: John Innes Centre Researchers have shed fresh light on the evolution and function of the shapes we see in ...
A phylogenetic analysis reveals the evolution of the mitochondrial calcium transporter
Credit: IRB Barcelona The system that regulates cellular calcium levels duplicated, generating two non-equivalent systems, some one billion years ago ...
SMART researchers find new way to make bacteria more sensitive to antibiotics
Study finds that exposing bacteria to hydrogen sulfide can increase antimicrobial sensitivity in bacteria that do not produce H2SCredit: Jessie ...
Secretion of sugar polymers modulates multicellularity in the bacterium Myxococcus xanthus
Fundamental research in bacterial physiologyCredit: Salim Timo Islam Research by INRS (Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique) Professor Salim Timo ...
Rapid Reviews: COVID-19 looks at neurological side effects of COVID-19, vaccines, and more
The new open access journal also looks at antidepressants and risk of death or intubation with COVID-19 and seroprevalence between ...
Gene therapy targets inner retina to combat blindness
Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, August 10, 2020--Gene therapy to the inner retina prevented blindness in ...
Previously undescribed lineage of Archaea illuminates microbial evolution
New group with possible symbiotic life strategyCredit: Anja Spang In a publication in Nature Communications last Friday, NIOZ scientists Nina ...
Imaging method highlights new role for cellular “skeleton” protein
Molecules of actin help control the division of mitochondria, with implications for diseaseCredit: Salk Institute/Waitt Advanced Biophotonics Center LA JOLLA--(August ...
Scientists discover curious clues in the war between cf bacteria
UNC School of Medicine researchers describe in detail the different weaponry bacteria use to establish infection in the lungs of ...
Scientists introduce FlowRACS for high-throughput discovery of enzymes
Credit: WANG Xixian Enzymes are molecules that catalyze metabolisms. Discovery and mining of enzymes, such as those producing oils or ...
Oldest enzyme in cellular respiration isolated
How microbes in the primordial atmosphere obtained energy without oxygenCredit: Uwe Dettmar for Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany In the first ...
Researchers discover how plants distinguish beneficial from harmful microbes
Credit: Christina Krönauer and Damiano Lironi, Aarhus University Legume plants fix atmospheric nitrogen with the help of symbiotic bacteria, called ...