Microbiology

To stem the coronavirus crisis, Harvard Medical School scientists forge ahead on six key fronts From the plagues of medieval Europe to the influenza pandemic of 1918, the specter of the next public health disaster has gripped the minds of…

Credit: José Alejandro Alvarez The rich biodiversity of coral reefs even extends to microbial communities within fish, according to new research. The study in Proceedings of the Royal Society: Biological Sciences reports that…

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…

Credit: Photo courtesy Luis Bolaños, OSU. CORVALLIS, Ore. - A study that included the first-ever winter sampling of phytoplankton in the North Atlantic revealed cells smaller than what scientists expected, meaning a key weapon…

Multi-disciplinary team of experts from academia and industry collaborate to develop 3D printable swabs for COVID-19 testing Boston, Mass. - As the numbers of patients with confirmed and suspected COVID-19 in the United States continue to…

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…

In this pilot study, they used colon biopsies samples and feces samples from nine patients to compare two sequencing methodsCredit: Bellvitge Biomedical Research Institute, IDIBELL The intestinal microbiota, composed by the…

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…

UC Davis Health has two clinical trials underway for hospitalized patients with severe COVID-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2. The studies are evaluating the safety and effectiveness of two drugs -- the…

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…

The International Human Frontier Science Program Organization (HFSPO) announced today some $33 million USD to support the top 4% of the HFSP Research Grant applications over the coming three years. The 28 winning teams of the 2020…

San Antonio, Texas (March 26, 2020) - Scientists at Texas Biomedical Research Institute (Texas Biomed) today announced the launch of a comprehensive research initiative to investigate multiple animal species and their response to the…

Washington, DC - March 20, 2020 - SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19 disease is more transmissible, but has a lower mortality rate than its sibling, SARS-CoV, according to a review article published this week in Antimicrobial…

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…

Washington, DC - March 23, 2020 - The number of potential therapeutic options for treatment of COVID-19 is growing. Approaches include blocking SARS-CoV-2 from entering cells, disrupting the virus' replication, antivirals, vaccines, and…

In an effort to help with and advance conservation, scientists have been investigating the microbiome of the protected Krefft's river turtleCredit: Dr Donald McKnight Research published in the journal Microbiology has found that a unique…

HFSP raises the value of its fellowship awards granted to 65 young researchers that will challenge traditional thinking by investigating behavioural computation, genomics of fear memories, the dynamics of the blood stem cell niche, or…

"We are living through an explosion in the availability of microbiome data," according to JP Dundore-Arias, assistant professor of plant pathology at California State University, Monterey Bay. "In agricultural systems, the proliferation…

Columbia professor creates NeuroRights and a technocratic oath Brain-computer interfaces may soon have the power to decode people's thoughts and interfere with their mental activity. Even now the interfaces, or BCIs, which link brains…