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IgA Described as "Tuner" in Microbe Interaction Regulation

Throughout the world, IgA deficiency is considered to be the most common primary immune deficiency, but its presentation has continued to confuse researchers and physicians.

29 May 2023

Salmonella Employs Unique Tactics to Escape Cellular Defense

Salmonella enterica, a disease-causing bacterium, employs a variety of strategies to evade the human body’s defense mechanisms, much like thieves.

29 May 2023

Promising Gene Editing Tool Could Tackle Antimicrobial Resistance

A new instrument that has the potential to help minimize the spread of antimicrobial resistance is revealing early potential, by using a bacterial immune system as a gene-editing tool.

26 May 2023

Failed Antibiotics Could Become Weed Killers in the Future

Weed killers of the future could soon be based on failed antibiotics.

25 May 2023

Molecular Method Reveals Whether or Not Bacteria Respond to Antibiotics Within Minutes

Researchers at Karolinska Institutet have developed a molecular method able to detect whether or not bacteria respond to antibiotics within minutes.

23 May 2023

Microorganisms Mitigate Climate Warming: Study Finds

A new study from Lund University in Sweden shows that the ability of microorganisms to adapt to climate warming will slow down global warming by storing carbon in soil.

23 May 2023

Compound Found in Magnolia Tree Bark Inhibits SARS-CoV-2 Replication in Several Cell Types

A compound called honokiol, which is found in the bark of multiple species of magnolia tree, inhibits replication of SARS-CoV-2 virus in several types of cells, according to a team of researchers in the Netherlands.

23 May 2023

Revealing the Molecular and Cellular Underpinnings of Summit Disease

Carolyn Elya, a Postdoctoral Researcher in the Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology at Harvard, illustrates the molecular and cellular underpinnings of the parasitic fungus Entomophthora muscae’s (E. muscae’s) ability to influence the behavior of fruit flies in new research published in eLife.

22 May 2023

Novel Gene-Editing Strategy Harnesses Unusual Protective Ability to Eliminate HIV-1 Infection

Genetic alterations that give rise to a rare, fatal disorder known as MOGS-CDG paradoxically also protect cells against infection by viruses.

22 May 2023

Researchers Discover How Deadly Hospital Pathogen can Survive Harsh Environments

The deadly hospital pathogen Acinetobacter baumannii can live for a year on a hospital wall without food and water. Then, when it infects a vulnerable patient, it resists antibiotics as well as the body's built-in infection-fighting response.

17 May 2023

Long-Ignored Antibiotic may Provide Much-Needed Protection Against Multi-Drug Resistant Bacteria

An old antibiotic may provide much-needed protection against multi-drug resistant bacterial infections, according to a new study publishing May 16th in the open access journal PLOS Biology by James Kirby of Harvard Medical School, US, and colleagues.

17 May 2023

Heat-Loving Marine Bacteria can Help Reduce Asbestos' Toxicity

Asbestos materials were once widely used in homes, buildings, automobile brakes and many other built materials due to their strength and resistance to heat and fire, as well as to their low electrical conductivity.

16 May 2023

Fecal Microbiota Transplantation to Help in Clostridioides difficile Infection

In Europe, Clostridioides difficile infection results in severe diarrhea and leads to the death of around 20,000 patients, every year. It is one of the most common hospital-acquired infections.

16 May 2023

Understanding the Motility of H. pylori Using 3D Model

Helicobacter pylori is a common and deadly spiral-shaped bacteria.

16 May 2023

Infections with the Fungus Candida auris on the Rise in Germany

Candida auris is an extremely new species among yeasts from the Candida genus that cause infections in humans: it was only reported in 2009, and no evidence has been found prior to the 1990s.

16 May 2023

Expanding Soil Microbiology from the Laboratory to Ecosystems

Soil microbiology research greatly relies on big data. This suggests that experiments will no longer be conducted primarily in the laboratory but will instead be conducted in the field.

16 May 2023

Tracking Antimicrobial Resistance Trends in Commensal Escherichia Coli Isolated From Swine

The spread of drug-resistant microbes has become a global health concern that threatens our ability to treat infections.

15 May 2023

Increase in Certain Bacterial Species Indicates Intestinal Candida Fungi Overgrowth

The bacteria present in the intestine provide information about the quantities of fungi of the potentially disease-causing Candida genus.

15 May 2023

Gut Microbiota Interspecies Interactions may Impact the Efficacy of Antibiotics Against C. Difficile

Clostridioides difficile (C. difficile) is a bacterium that can infect the large intestine, with symptoms ranging from diarrhea to life-threatening colon damage.

12 May 2023

Researchers Show a Second Key Gene Involved in Malaria's Resistance to Chloroquine

How malaria parasites evolved to evade a major antimalarial drug has long been thought to involve only one key gene.

12 May 2023

Microbiology

IgA Described as "Tuner" in Microbe Interaction Regulation

Salmonella Employs Unique Tactics to Escape Cellular Defense

Promising Gene Editing Tool Could Tackle Antimicrobial Resistance

Failed Antibiotics Could Become Weed Killers in the Future

Molecular Method Reveals Whether or Not Bacteria Respond to Antibiotics Within Minutes

Microorganisms Mitigate Climate Warming: Study Finds

Compound Found in Magnolia Tree Bark Inhibits SARS-CoV-2 Replication in Several Cell Types

Revealing the Molecular and Cellular Underpinnings of Summit Disease

Novel Gene-Editing Strategy Harnesses Unusual Protective Ability to Eliminate HIV-1 Infection

Researchers Discover How Deadly Hospital Pathogen can Survive Harsh Environments

Long-Ignored Antibiotic may Provide Much-Needed Protection Against Multi-Drug Resistant Bacteria

Heat-Loving Marine Bacteria can Help Reduce Asbestos' Toxicity

Fecal Microbiota Transplantation to Help in Clostridioides difficile Infection

Understanding the Motility of H. pylori Using 3D Model

Infections with the Fungus Candida auris on the Rise in Germany

Expanding Soil Microbiology from the Laboratory to Ecosystems

Tracking Antimicrobial Resistance Trends in Commensal Escherichia Coli Isolated From Swine

Increase in Certain Bacterial Species Indicates Intestinal Candida Fungi Overgrowth

Gut Microbiota Interspecies Interactions may Impact the Efficacy of Antibiotics Against C. Difficile

Researchers Show a Second Key Gene Involved in Malaria's Resistance to Chloroquine

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