Fruit flies help in the development of personalized medicine
Credit: Torsten Nygård Kristensen, Aalborg University People with the same diagnosis typically receive a standard treatment that is not necessarily ...
Tag: Microbiology
Nodulation connected to higher resistance against powdery mildew in legumes
Credit: The American Phytopathological Society and Zaiyong Si St. Paul, Minnesota--Scientists have long known that nodulation is important to plant ...
The cholera bacterium can steal up to 150 genes in one go
Credit: G. Knott & M. Blokesch, EPFL In 2015, EPFL researchers led by Melanie Blokesch published a seminal paper in ...
How plants react to fungi
Credit: Michaela Kopischke Plants are under constant pressure from fungi and other microorganisms. The air is full of fungal spores, ...
New bioinformatics hub at UChicago enables next-gen infectious disease research
NIH-funded resource merges pathogen databases and adds AI capabilitiesCredit: PATRIC/University of Chicago The most valuable weapon against the next deadly ...
New fluorescence method reveals signatures of individual microbes
Researchers from University of Tsukuba develop a new method that reveals the unique signatures of individual cells in mixtures of ...
Analysis of HIV-1B in Indonesia illuminates transmission dynamics of the virus
Credit: Kobe University Research into the molecular phylogeny (evolutionary history) of the HIV-1B virus in Indonesia has succeeded in illuminating ...
Weak spot in pathogenic bacteria
ClpX-ClpP protein complex could be starting point for new antibioticsCredit: Dr. Christos Gatsogiannis / MPI of Molecular Physiology Antibiotics are ...
Stanford-made exhibit plunges people in the world of microbes
Credit: ©Exploratorium, www.exploratorium.edu Wandering through the exhibits of the Exploratorium science museum in San Francisco in spring 2018, visitors had ...
Cloning to fight esophageal cancer
Recreating the steps to malignancy leads to faster drug discoveryCredit: University of Houston Using cloning technology to aid in the ...
‘Poisoned arrowhead’ used by warring bacteria could lead to new antibiotics
Credit: T.E. Wood et al. (2019) A weapon bacteria use to vanquish their competitors could be copied to create new ...
Discovered new regulation for infant growth
Researchers at the University of Bergen in Norway have identified new genetic signals for the regulation of how infants grow; ...
Inscripta launches the world’s first benchtop platform for digital genome engineering
The Onyx™ platform enables scientists to create libraries of millions of precisely engineered single cells in one experiment through a ...
Cracking how ‘water bears’ survive the extremes
Researchers discover that a protein in tiny tardigrades binds and forms a protective cloud against extreme survival threats such as ...
Microbes in warm soils released more carbon than those in cooler soils
Warming tropical soils could cause a 9% increase in atmospheric CO2 this centuryCredit: Andrew Nottingham As one descends a mountain, ...
Potent antibody curbs Nipah and Hendra virus attack
A monoclonal antibody prevents the virus from fusing with cell membranes to gain entryCredit: Veesler Lab/UW Medicine A new monoclonal ...
Urban beaches are environmental hotspots for antibiotic resistance after rainfall
Stormwater, sewage and urban waste-stream infrastructure, such as pipes, are potential reservoirs and channels for the spread of AbR into ...
GARDP and Entasis Therapeutics initiate global phase 3 trial of zoliflodacin
Credit: (GARDP/Neil Brandvold) The Global Antibiotic Research and Development Partnership (GARDP), a not for profit organisation developing new treatments for ...
Cancer tumours form surprising connections with healthy brain cells
Healthy neurons form synapses with aggressive brain cancer cells that stimulate the growth and proliferation of brain cancer; anti-epileptic medicine ...
Why viruses like Herpes and Zika will need to be reclassified, and its biotech impact
New findings reveal many different structural models, which can eventually lead to developing more targeted antiviral vaccines.Credit: Antoni Luque, San ...
