Scientists discover how proteins form crystals that tile a microbe’s shell
A new understanding of the nucleation process could shed light on how the shells help microbes interact with their environments, ...
Tag: Microbiology
How cells get moving
Credit: Source: Sonja-Verena Albers Archaea, bacteria and eukaryotes are what biologists call the three domains of life. Of these three, ...
Ancient ‘chewing gum’ yields insights into people and bacteria of the past
Credit: Photo: Theis Jensen. Researchers from the University of Copenhagen have succeeded in extracting a complete human genome from a ...
Fatty meal interrupts gut’s communication with the body, but why?
If that second helping of prime rib stuns your gut into silence, is that good or bad?Credit: Duke University/Lihua Ye ...
Gastric cancer susceptibility marker discovered
Credit: © Lionel Costa Gastric cancer, the third most common cause of cancer-related deaths, is often associated with a poor ...
Simple test could prevent fluoride-related disease
Method uses synthetic biology to detect dangerous levels of fluoride in drinking waterCredit: Julius B. Lucks/Northwestern University With one drop ...
From cancer medication to antibiotic
Modified cancer drug effective against multi-resistant bacteriaCredit: Andreas Heddergott / TUM Antibiotic-resistant bacteria are increasingly the source of deadly infections. ...
It’s always a good hair day for Leptothrix cholodnii
Researchers led by a team at the University of Tsukuba find that hair-like structures on the surface of aquatic bacterium ...
Free tool simplifies cancer research
Credit: Ulf Sirborn Every cell contains a vast number of proteins, each of which has a specific function, for example ...
New CRISPR-based system targets amplified antibiotic-resistant genes
'Pro-active' genetics technology demonstrates 100-fold improved efficiency in targeting antibiotic-resistant bacteriaCredit: Bier Lab, UC San Diego Taking advantage of powerful ...
Researchers create synthetic nanopores made from DNA
Credit: Rasmus Peter Thomsen, Aarhus University In 2015, the first commercial nanopore DNA sequencing device was introduced by Oxford Nanopore ...
Study pinpoints new drug targets to treat Nipah virus
Credit: Mallur Madhusudhan, CC BY 4.0 Nipah virus, which is transmitted to humans from bats and pigs, has a high ...
Novel study underscores microbial individuality
Largest-ever study analyzing cells' individual blueprints reveals new patterns in the global distribution and diversity of ocean microbesCredit: Bigelow Laboratory ...
Eavesdropping on the human microbiome uncovers ‘potent’ new antibiotics
Using a massive dataset drawn from the genomes of hundreds of people, a team of Princeton researchers identified two microbes ...
Researchers develop approach to alter intestinal microbiota, vaccinate against inflammatory diseases
Credit: Georgia State University ATLANTA--Targeted immunization against bacterial flagellin, a protein that forms the appendage that enables bacterial mobility, can ...
Prellis Biologics launches TissueWorkshop to accelerate human tissue engineering research
TissueWorkshop™ makes complex tissue engineering simple for all researchers by generating complex 3D scaffolds that can be printed with any ...
Using human bone remains to study predictable, postmortem microbes
$1.2 million from National Institutes of Justice to fund the workCredit: Colorado State University It's one of the most salient ...
Discovery of a new protein gives insight into a long-standing plant immunity mystery
Credit: Robyn Roberts et al. When a plant senses an invading pathogen, it activates a molecular signaling cascade that switch ...
How do you cultivate a healthy plant microbiome?
Researchers home in on core microbial community of tomato, one that is robust and stableCredit: Photo courtesy of Britt Koskella ...
Empowering mucosal healing with an engineered probiotic
A genetically programmed living hydrogel material facilitates intestinal wound healing and could be developed as a probiotic therapy for patients ...
