Tag: Microbiology

A new understanding of the nucleation process could shed light on how the shells help microbes interact with their environments, ...

Credit: Source: Sonja-Verena Albers Archaea, bacteria and eukaryotes are what biologists call the three domains of life. Of these three, ...

Credit: Photo: Theis Jensen. Researchers from the University of Copenhagen have succeeded in extracting a complete human genome from a ...

If that second helping of prime rib stuns your gut into silence, is that good or bad?Credit: Duke University/Lihua Ye ...

Credit: © Lionel Costa Gastric cancer, the third most common cause of cancer-related deaths, is often associated with a poor ...

Method uses synthetic biology to detect dangerous levels of fluoride in drinking waterCredit: Julius B. Lucks/Northwestern University With one drop ...

Modified cancer drug effective against multi-resistant bacteriaCredit: Andreas Heddergott / TUM Antibiotic-resistant bacteria are increasingly the source of deadly infections. ...

Researchers led by a team at the University of Tsukuba find that hair-like structures on the surface of aquatic bacterium ...

Credit: Ulf Sirborn Every cell contains a vast number of proteins, each of which has a specific function, for example ...

'Pro-active' genetics technology demonstrates 100-fold improved efficiency in targeting antibiotic-resistant bacteriaCredit: Bier Lab, UC San Diego Taking advantage of powerful ...

Credit: Rasmus Peter Thomsen, Aarhus University In 2015, the first commercial nanopore DNA sequencing device was introduced by Oxford Nanopore ...

Credit: Mallur Madhusudhan, CC BY 4.0 Nipah virus, which is transmitted to humans from bats and pigs, has a high ...

Largest-ever study analyzing cells' individual blueprints reveals new patterns in the global distribution and diversity of ocean microbesCredit: Bigelow Laboratory ...

Using a massive dataset drawn from the genomes of hundreds of people, a team of Princeton researchers identified two microbes ...

Credit: Georgia State University ATLANTA--Targeted immunization against bacterial flagellin, a protein that forms the appendage that enables bacterial mobility, can ...

TissueWorkshop™ makes complex tissue engineering simple for all researchers by generating complex 3D scaffolds that can be printed with any ...

$1.2 million from National Institutes of Justice to fund the workCredit: Colorado State University It's one of the most salient ...

Credit: Robyn Roberts et al. When a plant senses an invading pathogen, it activates a molecular signaling cascade that switch ...

Researchers home in on core microbial community of tomato, one that is robust and stableCredit: Photo courtesy of Britt Koskella ...

A genetically programmed living hydrogel material facilitates intestinal wound healing and could be developed as a probiotic therapy for patients ...