Emerging field of synthetic condensates isolates or traps together biomolecules to control cellular processes. Biomedical engineers at Duke University have demonstrated a new synthetic approach…
Listeria monocytogenes, a deadly bacteria commonly found in the food processing industry, poses a significant threat to human health. Not only can it cause severe…
Drugs that might be used to treat infections in mammals by causing pathogen tolerance have been discovered through research on frog embryos. Why do some…
Owners of non-traditional pets have a higher risk of catching zoonotic diseases The danger of contracting zoonotic diseases, which are infections that transfer between animals…
Antibiotic-resistant pathogens could be defeated with the assistance of a synthetic antibiotic A brand-new antibiotic that was developed at The Rockefeller University using computational models…
The sometimes-pathogenic bacteria Staphylococcus aureus has a long and intimate relationship with people, one that helps it fend off our immune response. Staphylococcus aureus is…
A trigger for ‘cell suicide’ might lead to new skin infection therapies Every second, one million cells in your body die. That means 2.6 pounds…
Pathogens Can Hitch a Ride on Plastic To Reach the Sea According to a new study by the University of California, Davis, microplastics are a…
New research discovered that the fungus Rhizopus fights back against soil predators and human immune cells by partnering with a bacteria called Ralstonia in a…
University of South Australia scientists have made a surprising discovery in the origins of an antibiotic-resistant gene previously thought to have been confined to Adelaide….
Recently published work by scientists at the University of California, Berkeley, lays the foundation for new ways of thinking about pathogen evolution. “Our research highlights…
Antibiotics cure many bacterial infections. However, some patients suffer a relapse. A research group at the University of Basel has now discovered why some bacteria…
Complex microbial communities inhabit plants and modulate their development. Roots especially, host a wide diversity of micro-organisms – including bacteria and fungi – that directly…
Biologist Joseph Sorg is leading a team to analyze C. difficile, which kills at least 29,000 people a year. Scientists around the world have been…
MIT Senior Desmond Edwards has an insatiable curiosity about how the human body works — and how diseases stop it from working. Desmond Edwards was…
How a deadly land fungus began killing marine mammals in the Salish Sea. In the early 2000s, a fungus infected hundreds of animals and people…
New research shows that with more time, viruses have the luxury to infect the old host while exploring adaptive tweaks to infect a new host….
New research on leptospirosis sheds light on how the disease causes death and reveals a potentially novel treatment. While rare in the United States, leptospirosis…
