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May 1, 2024
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May 1, 2024 — Researchers uncover why some homes in rural Madagascar where bubonic plague is endemic are infested with fleas. Based on their findings, they recommend ways to reduce the flea populations and their ...
May 1, 2024 — Viruses known as 'jumbo' phages are seen as a potential tool against deadly bacterial infections. But scientists must first decipher the extraordinary makeup of these mysterious viruses. Researchers have now uncovered a key piece of jumbo phage ...
May 1, 2024 — Researchers changed the composition of the gut microbiota in male mice through common antibiotics, inducing a condition called dysbiosis, and found that: - Mouse pups sired by a dysbiotic father show significantly lower birth weight, and have ...
May 1, 2024 — Scientists have discovered that calcium plays a significant role in enhancing the resistance of potato plants to bacterial ...
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Apr. 30, 2024 — Cranberry extracts appear to improve intestinal microbiota and help prevent chronic diseases such as diabetes and cardiovascular diseases. The study ...
May 1, 2024 — A parasite that not only feeds of its host, but also makes the host change its own metabolism and thus biology. Microbiologists have shown this for the very first time in a specific group of ...
May 1, 2024 — A study has identified a therapy that can penetrate the slime that such infections use to protect themselves from antibiotics. Scientists showed that an antimicrobial peptide from cows has potential ...
Apr. 29, 2024 — The research explores how CRISPR can be used to edit ...
Apr. 8, 2024 — Scientists describe a new mechanism impacting the phage-bacterial arms race, a nanosized epibiotic parasite, TM7x, which helps its host bacterium (a ...
Apr. 29, 2024 — Many bacteria produce substances to gain an advantage over competitors in their highly competitive natural environment. Researchers have discovered a new so-called lantibiotic, namely epilancin A37. ...
Apr. 25, 2024 — Different types of barley recruit distinct communities of soil microbes to grow around their roots by releasing a custom mix of sugars and other ...
Apr. 26, 2024 — Research study reports intriguing findings made through innovative artificial intelligence analysis about yeasts -- small fungi that are key contributors to biotechnology, food production, and human ...
Apr. 26, 2024 — Researchers report on the molecular assembly of one of the most common anti-phage systems -- from the family of proteins called Gabija -- that is estimated to be used by at least 8.5%, and up to 18%, ...
Apr. 26, 2024 — Report details first-ever finding of highly pathogenic avian influenza virus in North American ...
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Apr. 26, 2024 — Fungal disease Fusarium head blight (FHB) is on the rise due to increasingly humid conditions induced by climate change during the wheat growing season, but a fundamental discovery could help reduce ...
Apr. 25, 2024 — The antibiotic vancomycin, recommended as first-line treatment for infection caused by the deadly superbug C. difficile (C. diff), may not be living up to its promise, according to new ...
Apr. 25, 2024 — Chemokines are signalling proteins that orchestrate the interaction of immune cells against pathogens and tumors. To understand this complex network, various techniques have been developed to ...
Apr. 24, 2024 — Cleveland Clinic researchers developed an artficial intelligence (AI) model that can determine the best combination and timeline to use when prescribing drugs to treat a bacterial infection, based ...
Apr. 24, 2024 — Researchers have created a new vaccine candidate to treat staph and MRSA ...
Apr. 24, 2024 — The single-celled organism Naegleria fowleri ranks among the deadliest human parasites. Researchers have now discovered viruses that infect this harmful microbe. Named Naegleriavirus, these belong to ...
Apr. 23, 2024 — A rapidly spreading virus threatens the health of the cacao tree and the dried seeds from which chocolate is made, jeopardizing the global supply of the world's most popular treat. Researchers ...
Apr. 23, 2024 — Researchers find less Salmonella on backyard poultry farms. But concerns remain about the prevalance of multidrug-resistant bacteria on both large and small ...
Apr. 23, 2024 — A research team has synthesized a lysin that during in vitro experiments targets bacteria responsible for producing odors in human ...
Apr. 22, 2024 — New study finds microbes may influence the taste of mustard ...
Apr. 22, 2024 — Some pathogens hide inside human cells to enhance their survival. Researchers have uncovered a unique tactic certain bacteria use to spread in the body without being detected by the immune system. In ...
Apr. 19, 2024 — Scientists have located and identified alterations in the monkeypox virus genome that potentially correlate with changes in the virus's transmissibility observed in the 2022 ...
Apr. 19, 2024 — Researchers have revealed the regulatory mechanism of a specific protein, TRBP, that plays a key role in balancing the immune response triggered by viral infections in mammal cells. These findings ...
Apr. 18, 2024 — Researchers have identified a potential new treatment for persistent neurological symptoms of Lyme disease, commonly seen even after antibiotic use. The study found that fibroblast growth factor ...
Apr. 18, 2024 — Animal and plant populations have been extensively studied, which has helped to understand ecosystem processes and evolutionary adaptations. However, this has not been the case with microbial ...
Apr. 17, 2024 — It's not a single pesticide or virus stressing honey bees, and affecting their health, but exposure to a complex web of multiple interacting stressors encountered while at work pollinating ...
Apr. 17, 2024 — The growing need for antibiotic-free products has challenged producers to decrease or completely stop using antimicrobials as feed supplements in the diet of broiler chickens to improve feed ...
Apr. 17, 2024 — Researchers have discovered toxic protein particles, shaped like umbrellas, that soil bacteria known as Streptomyces secrete to squelch competitors in their crowded microbial communities, especially ...
Apr. 17, 2024 — A team has constructed an improved mid-infrared microscope, enabling them to see the structures inside living bacteria at the nanometer scale. Mid-infrared microscopy is typically limited by its low ...
Apr. 17, 2024 — Prolonged droughts followed by sudden bursts of rainfall -- how do desert soil bacteria manage to survive such harsh conditions? This long-debated question has now been answered by microbiologists. ...
Friday, April 26, 2024
Thursday, April 25, 2024
- Treatment for Deadly Superbug C. Diff May Be Weakening
- How Immune Cells Communicate to Fight Viruses
Wednesday, April 24, 2024
- Artificial Intelligence Can Develop Treatments to Prevent 'superbugs'
- A Vaccine to Fight Antibiotic Resistance
- Giant Viruses Infect Deadly Parasite
Tuesday, April 23, 2024
- World's Chocolate Supply Threatened by Devastating Virus
- Study Compares Salmonella Rates in Backyard, Commercial Poultry Farm Samples
- Odor-Causing Bacteria in Armpits Targeted Using Bacteriophage-Derived Lysin
Monday, April 22, 2024
- The Spiciness of Mustard May Depend on Soil Microbes
- The Enemy Within: How Pathogens Spread Unrecognized in the Body
Friday, April 19, 2024
- New Research Defines Specific Genomic Changes Associated With the Transmissibility of the Monkeypox Virus
- Key Protein Regulates Immune Response to Viruses in Mammal Cells
Thursday, April 18, 2024
- Potential New Treatment Path for Lasting Lyme Disease Symptoms
- Marine Microbial Populations: Potential Sensors of the Global Change in the Ocean
Wednesday, April 17, 2024
- Honey Bees Experience Multiple Health Stressors out-in-the-Field
- Probiotic Feed Additive Boosts Growth, Health in Poultry in Place of Antibiotics
- New Class of Antimicrobials Discovered in Soil Bacteria
- A Better View With New Mid-Infrared Nanoscopy
- How Soil Microbes Survive in Harsh Desert Environments
- Copper Beads in Pig Feed Reshape Swine Gut Microbiome
Tuesday, April 16, 2024
- Coral Reef Microbes Point to New Way to Assess Ecosystem Health
- Real-Time Detection of Infectious Disease Viruses by Searching for Molecular Fingerprinting
Monday, April 15, 2024
- Millions of Gamers Advance Biomedical Research
- Researchers Resolve Old Mystery of How Phages Disarm Pathogenic Bacteria
Friday, April 12, 2024
- How Seaweed Became Multicellular
- Microbial Food as a Strategy Food Production of the Future
- Innovative Antiviral Defense With New CRISPR Tool
Thursday, April 11, 2024
- New Approach for Combating 'resting' Bacteria
- Tropical Coral-Infecting Parasites Discovered in Cold Marine Ecosystems
Wednesday, April 10, 2024
- New Drug Prevents Flu-Related Inflammation and Lung Damage
- New Diagnostic Tool Achieves Accuracy of PCR Tests With Faster and Simpler Nanopore System
Tuesday, April 9, 2024
Monday, April 8, 2024
- Bringing Multidrug-Resistant Pathogens to Their Knees
- How Mosquito Larva Guts Could Help Create Highly Specific Insecticides
- Integrated Dataset Enables Genes-to-Ecosystems Research
Friday, April 5, 2024
- eDNA Methods Give a Real-Time Look at Coral Reef Health
- Rapid, Simultaneous Detection of Multiple Bacteria Achieved With Handheld Sensor
Thursday, April 4, 2024
- New Research Offers Insight Into the Future Understanding of MS and Its Treatments
- Microbial Signature of Colorectal Cancer-Associated Mutations Identified in New Study
- New Method Reveals Hidden Activity of Life Below Ground
Wednesday, April 3, 2024
- Evolution in Action? New Study Finds Possibility of Nitrogen-Fixing Organelles
- Giant Phage Holds Promise as Treatment for Lung Infections
- Discovery Could End Global Amphibian Pandemic
- Plastic-Free Vegan Leather That Dyes Itself Grown from Bacteria
- Scientists Further Our Understanding of How a Foodborne Bacterium Can Survive in Food Preparation Environments
Tuesday, April 2, 2024
- Scientists Link Certain Gut Bacteria to Lower Heart Disease Risk
- Infant Gut Microbes Have Their Own Circadian Rhythm, and Diet Has Little Impact on How the Microbiome Assembles
Monday, April 1, 2024
Thursday, March 28, 2024
- How the Crimean-Congo Hemorrhagic Fever Virus Enters Our Cells
- New Method Developed to Isolate HIV Particles
Wednesday, March 27, 2024
- A Combination of Approved Drugs Enhances the Delivery of Anti-Bacterial Medications to Treat Tuberculosis
- Scientists Extract Genetic Secrets from 4,000-Year-Old Teeth to Illuminate the Impact of Changing Human Diets Over the Centuries
- New Enzymatic Cocktail Can Kill Tuberculosis-Causing Mycobacteria
- Old Immune Systems Revitalized in Mouse Study, Improving Vaccine Response
Tuesday, March 26, 2024
- New Testing Approach Improves Detection of Rare but Emerging Powassan Virus Spread by Deer Ticks
- Silicon Spikes Take out 96% of Virus Particles
- New Roadmap to Prevent Pandemics Centers on Protecting Biodiversity
Monday, March 25, 2024
- Novel Electrochemical Sensor Detects Dangerous Bacteria
- Breakthrough Antibiotic Shows Promise Against Obstinate Mycobacterial Infections
- Humans Pass More Viruses to Other Animals Than We Catch from Them
- Researchers Discover Evolutionary 'tipping Point' In Fungi
- Maize Genes Control Little Helpers in the Soil
Friday, March 22, 2024
- Researchers Invent Artificial Intelligence Model to Design New Superbug-Fighting Antibiotics
- Signs of Life Would Be Detectable in Single Ice Grain Emitted from Extraterrestrial Moons
Thursday, March 21, 2024
Wednesday, March 20, 2024
- Deep Earth Electrical Grid Mystery Solved
- Bacteria Subtype Linked to Growth in Up to 50% of Human Colorectal Cancers
- Experts Warn Climate Change Will Fuel Spread of Infectious Diseases
- Fiber, Genes and the Gut Microbiome: Study Reveals Possible Triggers for Inflammatory Bowel Disease
Tuesday, March 19, 2024
Monday, March 18, 2024
- Genes Identified That Allow Bacteria to Thrive Despite Toxic Heavy Metal in Soil
- Industrial Societies Losing Healthy Gut Microbes
- New Discovery Concerning Occurrence of Antibiotic Resistance
- Rise in Global Fungal Drug-Resistant Infections
- Newborn Piglets Serve as a Model for Studying Influenza
Friday, March 15, 2024
- Gut Bacteria Make Neurotransmitters to Shape the Newborn Immune System
- Protein Fragments ID Two New 'extremophile' Microbes--and May Help Find Alien Life
- Gut Bacteria Important for Overcoming Milk Allergy
Thursday, March 14, 2024
- Dog-Killing Flatworm Discovered in Southern California
- It's Hearty, It's Meaty, It's Mold
- Alzheimer's Drug Fermented With Help from AI and Bacteria Moves Closer to Reality
- New Bioengineered Protein Design Shows Promise in Fighting COVID-19
Wednesday, March 13, 2024
- Tryptophan in Diet, Gut Bacteria Protect Against E. Coli Infection
- Study Shows Important Role Gut Microbes Play in Airway Health in Persons With Cystic Fibrosis
- Steroid Drugs Used for HRT Can Combat E. Coli and MRSA
- Milk to the Rescue for Diabetics? Cow Produces Human Insulin in Milk
- Who Knew That Coprophagy Was So Vital for Birds' Survival?
Tuesday, March 12, 2024
Monday, March 11, 2024
- 'Molecular Rosetta Stone' Reveals How Our Microbiome Talks to Us
- Higher Bacterial Counts Detected in Single-Serving Milks, Researchers Report
Friday, March 8, 2024
Thursday, March 7, 2024
- How Does a Virus Hijack Insect Sperm to Control Disease Vectors and Pests?
- The Malaria Parasite Generates Genetic Diversity Using an Evolutionary 'copy-Paste' Tactic
- What Makes a Pathogen Antibiotic-Resistant?
- First Atom-Level Structure of Packaged Viral Genome Reveals New Properties, Dynamics