Tag: Microbiology

Methane-eating microbes help regulate Earth's temperatures with remarkably high metabolic rates within seafloor carbonate rocks Methane is a strong greenhouse ...

The human gut microbiome is a complex community of trillions of microbes that are constantly interacting with each other and ...

Gene expression patterns associated with pandemic viral infections provide a map to help define patients' immune responses, measure disease severity, ...

Ever since scientists discovered cells under the microscope more than 350 years ago, they have noted that each type of ...

Biochemists discover highly selective phage activation based on signal molecule This targeted control of phages provides entirely new biotechnological and ...

Many bacteria export intracellular calcium using active transporters homologous to the well-described mammalian Ca2+-ATPases such as plasma-membrane Ca2+-ATPase and sarco-endoplasmic ...

Credit: Adapted from ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces 2021, DOI: 10.1021/acsami.1c04559 Small pieces of plastic are everywhere, stretching from urban ...

The coronavirus that causes COVID-19 also tends to co-locate with one particular type of bacteria Watching what was happening around ...

Top: β-lactam antimicrobial agents rupture bacteria by destroying their cell walls. A joint research project based in Kumamoto University, Japan ...

New insights into the role of polyphenols in the soil microbiome Fruits, vegetables, red wine and chocolate are all rich ...

A research team from the University of Massachusetts Amherst has created an electronic microsystem that can intelligently respond to information ...

Epidemiological study revealed that Staphylococcus saprophyticus causing urinary tract infections can have origin in food In young women, Staphylococcus saprophyticus ...

Four times faster than conventional PCR methods, new approach called RADICA is highly specific, sensitive, and resistant to inhibitors RApid ...

An important step in the battle against antibiotic-resistant bacteria The battle against antibiotic-resistant bacteria: A new study at Tel Aviv ...

Just a few bacterial taxa found in ecosystems across the planet are responsible for more than half of carbon cycling ...

Fermented meat snack is helping researchers develop a safe, all-natural food preservative A traditional Vietnamese meat snack could hold the ...

BU scientists are investigating how environmental molecules can be used to engineer 'designer' microbiomes for combating disease, pollution, and more ...

Stanford scientists find epidemics of fungal infections in algae alter carbon cycling Tiny algae in Earth's oceans and lakes take ...

Overview: Certain cyanobacteria can change the absorbing light colors for photosynthesis using a green- and red-light sensing photosensor protein. A ...

Strong immune responses to unchanging, conserved parts of the 2009 H1N1 pandemic flu virus suggest strategies for effective universal vaccines ...