UMass Amherst grad student awarded fellowship for food allergy research
USDA program focuses on developing next generation of food scientistsCredit: UMass Amherst University of Massachusetts Amherst food science Ph.D. candidate ...
Tag: Microbiology
Global warming may limit spread of dengue fever, new research finds
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -- Infection with dengue virus makes mosquitoes more sensitive to warmer temperatures, according to new research led ...
Cell-analysis technique could combat tuberculosis
ITHACA, N.Y. - A new method that analyzes how individual immune cells react to the bacteria that cause tuberculosis could ...
Parkinson’s disease: How lysosomes become a hub for the propagation of the pathology
Over the last few decades, neurodegenerative diseases became one of the top 10 global causes of death. Researchers worldwide are ...
Interaction identified between SARS-CoV-2 and unusual RNA structures in human cells
Replication of SARS-CoV-2, the virus responsible for COVID-19, depends on a series of interactions between viral proteins and different cellular ...
Long COVID and severe COVID-19 infections associated with Epstein-Barr virus reactivation
Credit: Jeffrey E. Gold, Ramazan A. Okyay, Warren E. Licht, and David J. Hurley Two recently published studies available on ...
How does the structure of cytolysins influence their activity?
Credit: Jillian Nickel Although Enterococcus faecalis is usually an innocuous member of the bacterial community in the human gut, it ...
Traditional Japanese food may hold building blocks of COVID-19 treatments
Credit: Part of Figure is adopted from Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications Volume 570, 17 September 2021, Pages 21-25. © ...
Microbes play role in corn ‘hybrid vigor’
The tiny organisms living in soil may have a greater effect on the yield and pest and disease resistance of ...
Tiny organisms shed big light on ocean nutrients
Credit: Photo by Debra Lomas As the world warms, sweeping changes in marine nutrients seem like an expected consequence of ...
Fully booked at the bottom of the sea: There seems no room for new bacteria on sand grains
Bacteria on the sand on the ocean floor do not change between the seasons. Presumably, there is simply no room ...
Virginia Tech’s COVID-19 testing demonstrates power, versatility of academic labs
Credit: Clayton Metz/Virginia Tech In the early days of the pandemic, scientists at Virginia Tech created a COVID-19 testing laboratory ...
15,000-year-old viruses discovered in Tibetan glacier ice
Most of the viruses were previously unknown to humans, study findsCredit: Image courtesy Lonnie Thompson, The Ohio State University COLUMBUS, ...
Is bacterial acidity a key to tackle antimicrobial resistance?
Decreasing bacterial acidity could help reduce antimicrobial resistance by eliminating bacteria that can survive being treated with antibiotics. Scientists at ...
No IgA leads to intestinal inflammation in mice
Credit: Department of Immunology, TMDU Tokyo, Japan - While researchers have known for years that immunoglobulin A (IgA) is important ...
Mycoplasma mobile moves into overdrive: Twin motor modified from ATP synthase discovered
Scientists discover gliding machinery for Mycoplasma mobile to be a new structure that could share ancestry with ATP synthaseCredit: Yuya ...
Ocean microbes team up brilliantly to gather food when it’s scarce
Credit: Kanso et al, PNAS, 2021 WOODS HOLE, Mass. - What's a hungry marine microbe to do when the pickings ...
A simple compound to control complex gut microbes
Credit: RIKEN Researchers at the RIKEN Center for Integrative Medical Sciences (IMS) have discovered that acetate, a major metabolite produced ...
US$3 million grant to the University of Surrey for research into nature of time and life itself
Jim Al-Khalili and Dr Andrea Rocco from the University of Surrey, are to lead a major US$3m new research project ...
Add fatty acid to taste
New technology reveals single cancer cells have different appetites for fatty acids A new method developed by Institute for Systems ...
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‘Stealth transmission’ fuels fast spread of coronavirus outbreak
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Dual action: RNA binding protein also binds DNA and acts as a damage sensor across the genome
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Metabolism changes with age, just not when you might think
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Chinese case study suggests COVID-19 is not transmitted from pregnant mothers to newborns
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ACE inhibitors and angiotensin receptor blockers may increase the risk of severe COVID-19