Bacteriology

Credit: Imre Gonda, University of Zurich One of the most devastating pathogens that lives inside human cells is Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the bacillus that causes tuberculosis. According to the World Health Organization, 1.5…

Sustainable harvesting of Limulus Amebocyte Lysate (LAL) could save hundreds of thousands of horseshoe crabs per year and enable novel, potentially life-saving clinical uses for humans Horseshoe crabs are remarkable animals, beautiful in…

Gut microbiome shifts may explain how early dietary factors bring later health risks Infants who were started on solid foods at or before three months of age showed changes in the levels of gut bacteria and bacterial byproducts, called…

Developed by researchers at the Butantan Institute (Brazil) and Boston Children's Hospital, part of the Harvard Medical School (USA), the innovation is capable of providing protection against all serotypes of the bacterium Streptococcus…

Findings of Fraunhofer IVV, University of Erlangen-Nürnberg and University of AlicanteCredit: Fraunhofer IVV More than 60 odorous substances were identified using combined chemo-analytical methods. The information gained provides a…

Bacteria on nanowires convert sunlight, carbon dioxide and water to organic building blocksCredit: UC Berkeley photo by Peidong Yang If humans ever hope to colonize Mars, the settlers will need to manufacture on-planet a huge…

Researchers from North Carolina State University have found that a commonly used drug made from secondary bile acids can affect the life cycle of Clostridioides difficile (C. diff) in vitro and reduce the inflammatory response to C. diff…

Researchers at Goethe University discover hydrogen cycling in the bacterium Acetobacterium woodiiCredit: Sarah Ciurus, Goethe University Frankfurt They make sauerkraut sour, turn milk into yogurt and cheese, and give rye bread its…

Credit: NIOZ A variety of sea animals can take up virus particles while filtering seawater for oxygen and food. Sponges are particularly efficient. That was written by marine ecologist Jennifer Welsh from NIOZ this week, in a publication…

Phage therapy was successfully used against dysentery and staphylococcal infectionsCredit: Picture: The University of Jyväskylä/Gabriel Almeida In the current situation when the fear of virus infections in the public is common, it…

A strain of an extremophile group of bacteria is capable of ingesting toxic organic compounds as its sole source of carbon, nitrogen and energy There may be a small answer to one of the biggest problems on the planet. German researchers…

Credit: Beverly J. Agtuca, Sylwia A. Stopka, Thalita R. Tuleski, Fernanda P. do Amaral, Sterling Evans, Yang Liu, Dong Xu, Rose Adele Monteiro, David W. Koppenaal, Ljiljana Paša-Toli?, Christopher R. Anderton,... Crop yields have…

New insights into the physiology of bacteria and cellsCredit: Greg Stewart / SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory A transport protein that is used by the human pathogen Mycobacterium tuberculosis to import vitamin B12 turns out to be very…

Credit: Olivier Bonin/SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory Menlo Park, Calif. -- Researchers from the Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory have discovered a strange new feature of a protein that's thought…

Bayreuth microbiologists use bacteria to produce multifunctional magnetic nanoparticlesCredit: Image: Frank Mickoleit / Clarissa Lanzloth. Magnetic bacteria might soon be used for the production of novel biomaterials. A team of…

Municipal solid waste is trash -- such as plastic, food scraps and lawn clippings -- that goes into garbage bins and doesn't get recycled. Most of this waste is buried in landfills or is incinerated. Now, researchers reporting in ACS'…

UCPH Researchers have discovered that primitive bacterial parasites weaponize CRISPR to engage in battle against one anotherCredit: Rafael Pinilla-Redondo In recent years, the development of CRISPR technologies and gene-editing scissors in…

The first study looking at the effect of chlorhexidine mouthwash on the entire oral microbiome has found its use significantly increases the abundance of lactate-producing bacteria that lower saliva pH, and may increase the risk of tooth…

Credit: Steven Wilbert and Gary Borisy, The Forsyth Institute Using a recently developed fluorescent imaging technique, researchers in the United States have developed high-resolution maps of microbial communities on the human tongue. The…

Credit: eLife 2019;8:e43920 DOI: 10.7554/eLife.43920 Belying their slimy natures, the sticky patches of bacteria called biofilms often form intricate, starburst-like patterns as they grow. Now, researchers at Princeton…