Microbiology

A new antibiotic is being heralded as a breakthrough in the war against a superbugCredit: istock A new antibiotic developed by a Flinders University researcher is being heralded as a breakthrough in the war against a drug resistant…

Credit: University of Otago University of Otago research to better understand how bacteria and their viruses interact and evolve will enable future studies to exploit the use of bacteria and their viruses for potential biotechnology and…

Credit: S. El Aidy, University of Groningen Patients with Parkinson's disease are treated with levodopa, which is converted into dopamine, a neurotransmitter in the brain. In a study published on 18 January in the journal Nature…

Credit: UCLA Broad Stem Cell Research Center A study by UCLA researchers is the first to demonstrate a technique for coaxing pluripotent stem cells -- which can give rise to every cell type in the body and which can be grown indefinitely…

Artificially produced cells communicate with each otherCredit: Aurore Dupin / TUM Friedrich Simmel und Aurore Dupin, researchers at the Technical University of Munich (TUM), have for the first time created artificial cell…

Discovery by Rutgers and other scientists could lead to new antibiotics and anticancer drugsCredit: Dmitry Ghilarov Scientists at Rutgers and universities in Russia, Poland and England have solved a nearly 30-year mystery - how the…

Texas Biomed scientists team up to study host and virus protein interactionCredit: Texas Biomed A team of researchers have discovered the interaction between an Ebola virus protein and a protein in human cells that may be an important key…

The healthy gut microbiome contributes to skeletal health, and disruption of this system with antibiotics leads to a pro-inflammatory immune response that dysregulates post-pubertal skeletal developmentCredit: Dr. Chad Novince of the…

A full microbiome allows fruit flies to take advantage of larger but less nutritious food sources Fruit flies fed antibiotics to supress their gut microbiome are forced to avoid the best food patches if they lack vital amino acids,…

Credit: Florida Atlantic University's Brain Institute Cocaine is a highly addictive psychostimulant that induces complex molecular, cellular and behavioral responses. Despite various approaches and years of pre-clinical studies,…