Decoding the Bee Gut: A Microbiological Marvel Unearthed
New research reveals that bees produce nutrients that aid in the colonization of their gut bacteria, highlighting a symbiotic host-microbiota relationship and offering insights into…
New research reveals that bees produce nutrients that aid in the colonization of their gut bacteria, highlighting a symbiotic host-microbiota relationship and offering insights into…
Scientists tease apart the relationships between bacterial languages. Machine learning and laboratory experiments have provided scientists with insights into the different languages bacteria use to…
Researchers discover that a common microbe is an unrecognized cause of itching. Researchers at Harvard Medical School have discovered that the bacterium Staphylococcus aureus, commonly…
A groundbreaking study of the giant bacterium Epulopiscium viviparus shows its unique energy production, promising future applications in algae utilization. Not all bacteria are created…
Survey of bacterial genomes highlights the arsenal of enzymes microbes use to produce energy in the oxygen-poor environment of the gut. The gut microbiome is…
A study in North Carolina has detected the bacterium responsible for scrub typhus, a serious disease, in local chiggers. The findings prompt concerns about the…
Dr. Quentin Michaudel and his research team have created a new family of polymers capable of killing bacteria without inducing antibiotic resistance — a major…
Feeding uncooked meat to dogs heightens the chance of them excreting E. coli strains resistant to the commonly used antibiotic ciprofloxacin, according to a study…
Team develops test to identify new drugs that can disable pathogens and so make real gains in public health. Antibiotic-resistant “superbugs” that can defeat efforts…
Texas A&M University researchers are co-leading a $20 million project to develop a $1 cancer treatment. What if a single one-dollar dose could cure cancer?…
Researchers at Florey Institute, in collaboration with intensive care clinicians from a hospital, have demonstrated the effectiveness of sodium ascorbate, a pH-balanced formulation of vitamin…
It’s well known that bacterial products can get inside human cells; Now, researchers can finally explain how. Messenger bubbles produced by human cells can pick…
When bacteria build communities, they cooperate and share nutrients across generations. Researchers at the University of Basel have now successfully demonstrated this for the first…
A new study led by the University of Oxford has shed light on why certain species of bacteria carry astonishing arsenals of weapons. The findings,…
A University of Cambridge study reveals that Group B Streptococcus (GBS) in the placenta significantly raises the risk of newborns being admitted to neonatal units,…
A research group has made new insights into how locomotion occurs in bacteria. The group identified the FliG molecule in the flagellar layer, the ‘motor’…
Scientists have discovered that bacteria can form memory-like mechanisms, informing strategies that lead to dangerous infections in humans. These strategies include antibiotic resistance and the…
Infections with antibiotic-resistant bacteria are an escalating global concern. The solution may partly involve emulating the bacteria’s own weaponry. A new bacteriocin, discovered in a…