Mystery Solved: Why Food Poisoning Bacteria Are So Good at Swimming Through Your Gut
Researchers have solved the mystery of why a species of bacteria that causes food poisoning can swim faster in stickier liquids, such as within guts….
Researchers have solved the mystery of why a species of bacteria that causes food poisoning can swim faster in stickier liquids, such as within guts….
Due to the rapid spread of COVID-19, there is an increasing shortage of personal protective equipment (PPE) crucial to protecting health care workers from infection….
Rotavirus is responsible for more than 130,000 deaths annually in infants and children younger than five years. The virus causes severe, dehydrating diarrhea as it…
Research finds mechanism by which bacterial toxins evolve ability to cause new illnesses. The coronavirus pandemic is a daily reminder of the consequences brought by…
Administering the MMR (measles, mumps, rubella) vaccine could serve as a preventive measure to dampen septic inflammation associated with COVID-19 infection, say a team of…
Meningococci are bacteria that can cause life-threatening meningitis and sepsis. These pathogens use a small protein with a large impact: The RNA-binding protein ProQ is…
A dual-mechanism antibiotic kills Gram-negative bacteria and avoids drug resistance. Poison is lethal all on its own — as are arrows — but their combination…
Plants need nitrogen in the form of ammonium if they are to grow. In the case of a great many cultivated plants, farmers are obliged…
By studying how the tiniest organisms in the Atacama Desert of Chile, one of the driest places on Earth, extract water from rocks, researchers at…
University of Maryland researcher develops potentially revolutionary framework for heredity and evolution in which inheritable information is stored outside the genome. The common view of…
The test may rapidly and sensitively distinguish subtypes of Salmonella, reports The Journal of Molecular Diagnostics. Researchers report the development of a sensitive and specific…
New method will provide insight into genomes of bacteria and viruses, as well as extrachromosomal circular DNA in mammals and plants. University of Alberta biologists…
New insights represent a major step forward in the formation of a new glycopeptide antibiotic to fight superbugs. A powerful new insight, linked to recent…
When they encounter nutrient oases in the marine desert, marine bacteria release a gas involved in climate regulation. A new study shows that “hotspots” of…
In recent years, giant viruses have been unearthed in several of the world’s most mysterious locations, from the thawing permafrost of Siberia to locations unknown…
Korean researchers have screened 48 FDA-approved drugs against SARS-CoV-2, and found that two, that are already FDA-approved for other illnesses, seem promising. The FDA approval…
Researchers from the Hubrecht Institute in Utrecht, Erasmus MC University Medical Center Rotterdam, and Maastricht University in the Netherlands have found that the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2,…
In November of 2019—likely, even earlier—a tiny entity measuring just a few hundred billionths of a meter in diameter began to tear apart human society…