Science snapshots from Berkeley Lab
Gamers designing proteins, raw food changing the gut, and a toxin-absorbing MOFCredit: (Credit: Gemma Smith/Manchester University) The unique ways in ...
Tag: Microbiology
Engineers and biologists together to study microbiota-gut-brain axis
A new experimental unit built at the Politecnico di Milano within the ERC project 'MINERVA' of Horizon 2020Credit: Politecnico di ...
Discovery may help derail Parkinson’s ‘runaway train’
Researchers have discovered a new enzyme that inhibits the LRRK2 pathway, the most common cause of genetic Parkinson'sCredit: University of ...
Crab disease poses threat to shellfish stocks
Comprehensive new studyCredit: BlueFish Project, Swansea University Shore crabs carry parasites that pose a major threat to shellfish stocks. In ...
Malaria pathogen under the X-ray microscope
Credit: S. Kapishnikov Around 40 percent of humanity lives in regions affected by malaria, around 200 million people contract the ...
Montana State researchers win $3 million NIH grant to study gut immune system
Credit: MSU Photo by Adrian Sanchez-Gonzalez BOZEMAN -- One day, instead of requiring a painful needle injection, vaccinating against a ...
More than 50 international students to receive academic travel awards for SLAS 2020
The Society for Laboratory Automation and Screening, (SLAS) has selected 53 life sciences students to receive SLAS Tony B. Academic ...
Using probiotics to protect honey bees against fatal disease
Credit: Western University Probiotics, beneficial microorganisms best known for promoting gut health in humans, are now being used by Western ...
How Chlamydia gain access to human cells
Publication in Nature CommunicationsCredit: HHU / Jan Galle Chlamydia are bacteria that can infect human and animal cells. Human health ...
Bacteria and fungi show a precise daily rhythm in tropical air, finds NTU
Credit: NTU Singapore Scientists from the Singapore Centre for Environmental Life Sciences Engineering (SCELSE) at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU ...
Parasite manipulates algal metabolism for its own benefit
Pathogenic fungi attack diatoms in the ocean and trigger the formation of new, beneficial substances in the algaeCredit: Angela Overmeyer, ...
New insight on how bacteria evolve drug resistance could lead to improved antibiotic therapies
Exploiting a strategy known as collateral sensitivity in bacteria could lead to the development of novel and sustainable treatmentsCredit: Barbosa ...
Bird bacteria is key to communication and mating
Credit: Nicole M. Gerlach Birds use odor to identify other birds, and researchers at Michigan State University have shown that ...
Turning a dangerous toxin into a biosensor
Credit: Chan Cao, EPFL Some types of bacteria have the ability to punch holes into other cells and kill them. ...
Make fungi think they’re starving to stop them having sex, say scientists
Newly characterised receptors that repress sexual reproduction in fungi could be targeted to slow down their evolutionCredit: Brown and Goldman ...
Signaling waves determine embryonic fates
Rice University lab shows cell-signal pathway dynamics prompt first patterns in embryosCredit: Jeff Fitlow/Rice University HOUSTON - (Oct. 28, 2019) ...
A weapon to make a superbug to become more deadly
Professor Chen and his team carried out experiments to compare the survival rates of the mice infected with different bacterial ...
Fire-spawned forest fungi hide out in other organisms, study finds
Credit: Photo by L. Brian Stauffer CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- When a wildfire obliterates a forest, the first life to rise ...
Antibiotics with novel mechanism of action discovered
Credit: Matthias Urfer, UZH The rapid emergence of antimicrobial resistance is a matter of global concern. According to the World ...
Stingless bee species depend on a complex fungal community to survive
A report published in PLOS ONE describes key roles of various microorganisms in the development of the larvae of Scaptotrigona ...
