Tag: Microbiology

Credit: Rob Spencer Thousand-year-old tropical soil unearthed by accelerating deforestation and agriculture land use could be unleashing carbon dioxide into ...

ATCC introduces standards for enhancing microbiology research at ASM Microbe 2019

Company develops fully authenticated and characterized materials to support reproducible research Manassas, VA - June 24, 2019 - ATCC, a ...

Pathogen engineered to self-destruct underlies cancer vaccine platform

Washington, DC - June 24, 2019 - A team of investigators has developed a cancer vaccine technology using live, attenuated ...

Discovery of performance-enhancing bacteria in the human microbiome

A single microbe accumulating in the microbiome of elite athletes can enhance exercise performance in mice, paving the way to ...

Scientists hit pay dirt with new microbial research technique

A better method for studying microbes in the soil will help scientists understand large-scale environmental cyclesCredit: Susan Brand and Marilyn ...

New hypothesis links habitat loss and the global emergence of infectious diseases

Auburn research study presents the 'Coevolution Effect' to explain the connection between habitat fragmentation and disease spillover into human populationsCredit: ...

The solution to antibiotic resistance could be in your kitchen sponge

June 23, 2019

San Francisco, CA - June 23, 2019 - Researchers from the New York Institute of Technology (NYIT) have discovered bacteriophages, ...

Understanding C. auris transmission with the healthcare environment

June 23, 2019

San Francisco, CA - June 23, 2019 - Researchers have now shown that patients who are heavily colonized with Candida ...

Prolonged transmission of a resistant bacterial strain in a Northern California hospital

June 23, 2019

How whole genome sequencing helped scientists demonstrate connections among bacterial strains identified over multiple years San Francisco, CA - June ...

New York Genome Center awarded $1.5M CZI grant for single-cell analysis toolkit

Combining multimodal methods to identify disease-causing genes of interest and extract more information at significantly reduced cost NEW YORK, NY ...

‘Sneezing’ plants contribute to disease proliferation

Credit: Virginia Tech Virginia Tech researchers discovered that wheat plants "sneezing" off condensation can vastly impact the spread of spore-borne ...

The key to unlock bacterial fusion

Researchers identify how a Chlamydia-produced protein helps bacterial compartments fuse together, thus increasing pathogenicity PHILADELPHIA - Most people know Chlamydia ...

Skin bacteria could save frogs from virus

Credit: Chris Sergeant/ZSL Bacteria living on the skin of frogs could save them from a deadly virus, new research suggests. ...

How bacteria kill host cells from the inside