Tag: Microbiology

January 18, 2023

Applied Microbiology International (AMI) is proud to announce the launch of its new journal, Sustainable Microbiology, in partnership with Oxford ...

Oregon State microbiology research furthers understanding of ocean’s role in carbon cycling

October 7, 2021

CORVALLIS, Ore. – Microbiology researchers at Oregon State University have shed new light on the mechanisms of carbon cycling in ...

UMass Amherst grad student awarded fellowship for food allergy research

July 23, 2021

USDA program focuses on developing next generation of food scientistsCredit: UMass Amherst University of Massachusetts Amherst food science Ph.D. candidate ...

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

July 19, 2021

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