Bacteriology

Affordable technologies for tuberculosis testing could help millions of patients in poverty or remote settings. Researchers will develop diagnostic tests that require low implementation and running costs and minimal training and…

Bacteria found in muddy marshes, estuaries and coastal sediment synthesise one of the Earth's most abundant climate cooling gases - according to new research from the University of East Anglia (UEA). Dimethylsulfoniopropionate (DMSP) is…

Washington, DC - August 16, 2019 - Researchers have shown that three genes from a probiotic Lactobacillus species, used in some commercial probiotic vaginal capsules, are almost certainly involved in mediating adhesion to the vaginal…

Microbiologists investigated the microbiome of a sessile free-living ciliate Stentor coeruleus; this is one of the first studies addressing prokaryotic communities associated with unicellular eukaryotes through metagenomic analysis A…

Discovery opens door to preventing the foodborne illnessCredit: Dan Addison | UVA Health A pair of University of Virginia School of Medicine scientists have revealed how E. coli seeks out the most oxygen-free crevices of your…

In enriched rearing method structures are added to rearing tanks to increase habitat complexity and resemblance to natural conditionsCredit: Natural Resources Institute Finland (Luke) Cooperative study conducted by University of Jyväskylä…

Engineering multiple bacterial strains reverses antagonistic interactions and results in more balanced consortia Bacteria, like people, have complicated relationships: they can either be friendly, neutral, or antagonistic toward each…

UNC School of Medicine researchers discover how molecules called rhamnolipids could make common aminoglycoside antibiotics effective against the toughest Staph infectionsCredit: Conlon Lab, UNC School of Medicine CHAPEL HILL, NC -…

Study of long-term data for river shows increase in freshwater invertebratesCredit: CEH A higher standard of wastewater treatment in the UK has been linked to substantial improvements in a river's biodiversity over the past 30…

Credit: Joy Leilei Shih Research conducted at the University of Hawaiʻi (UH) at Mānoa School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology (SOEST) on a marine sponge in Kāneʻohe Bay, O?ahu revealed a unique feeding strategy, wherein the…