OU College of Medicine awarded $11 million grant to study infections
Credit: OU Medicine OKLAHOMA CITY -- The University of Oklahoma College of Medicine has been awarded an $11 million federal ...
Tag: Microbiology
Modern problems, primitive solutions: A glimpse into archaic protein synthesis systems
Scientists show, for the first time, how protein synthesis in an ancient organism could have inspired the molecular tools used ...
Essential key to hearing sensitivity discovered
Credit: Dan Addison | UVA Communications New research from the University of Virginia School of Medicine is shedding light on ...
Triggered by light, a novel way to switch on an enzyme
Biotechnology: Researchers identify enzyme which becomes catalytically active by light; study published in 'Nature Communications'Credit: Steffen L. Drees Enzymes: they ...
Circadian oscillation of a cyanobacterium doesn’t need all three Kai proteins to keep going
Overturning conventional knowledge, what these scientists have discovered about the circadian oscillations of a cyanobacterium could lead to unveiling a ...
Sugar turns brown algae into good carbon stores
Only highly specialized bacteria can carry out the degradation of brown algae with the help of more than hundred enzymesCredit: ...
Humans have beneficial bacteria uniquely adapted for life in our noses
Credit: De Boeck et al. / Cell Reports Beneficial strains of bacteria residing in our guts, genital tracts, and skin ...
A return to the wild for better immune health
Credit: Jacob Mills A research team led by the University of Adelaide has found that revegetation of green spaces within ...
Insight into mechanism of treatment-resistant gonorrhea sets stage for new antibiotics
A research group at the Medical University of South Carolina examined an antibiotic-resistant strain of Neisseria gonorrhoeae and found a ...
AFAR honors Drs. James L. Kirkland of Mayo Clinic and Sean Curan of USC
Dr. Kirkland to receive Irving S. Wright Award and Dr. Curran to receive Vincent Cristofalo Rising Star Award in Aging ...
Environmental contaminants alter gut microbiome, health
Credit: Photo by L. Brian Stauffer CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- The microbes that inhabit our bodies are influenced by what we ...
Sex as stress management in microbes
Credit: Valerio Vitali Why is sex so popular? The question of why so many organisms reproduce sexually has mystified evolutionary ...
Study indicates the need to revise the protocol for detecting Zika in placenta
Brazilian researchers show that the virus can infect different placental regions and that collection and storage methods should be taken ...
Elucidating the mechanism of a light-driven sodium pump
Credit: Paul Scherer Institute/Mahir Dzambegovic Researchers at the Paul Scherrer Institute PSI have succeeded for the first time in recording, ...
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