Microbial changes regulate function of entire ecosystems
A major question in ecology has centered on the role of microbes in regulating ecosystem function. Now, in research published ahead of print in the journal Applied and Environmental Microbiology,...
View ArticleInvestigators link poultry contamination on farm and at processing plant
Researchers at the University of Georgia, Athens, have identified a strong link between the prevalence and load of certain food-borne pathogens on poultry farms, and later downstream at the processing...
View ArticleStem Cell Therapy Cures Type 1 Diabetes in Mice
By Serena Gordon HealthDay Reporter WEDNESDAY, June 5 (HealthDay News) — Using an immune-suppressing medication and adult stem cells from healthy donors, researchers say they were able to cure type 1...
View ArticleNew Kind of Therapy Shows Early Promise in MS Patients
By Brenda GoodmanHealthDay Reporter WEDNESDAY, June 5 (HealthDay News) — A new therapy for multiple sclerosis that teaches the body to recognize and then ignore its own nerve tissue appears to be safe...
View Article[Perspective] Microbiology: Seas of Superoxide
Superoxide in seawater may be produced by heterotrophic bacteria, with implications for trace metal cycling in the sea. [Also see Report by Diaz et al.]Authors: Yeala Shaked, Andrew Rose
View ArticleExpressly unfit for the laboratory
A new Berkeley Lab study challenges the orthodoxy of microbiology, which holds that in response to environmental changes, bacterial genes will boost production of needed proteins and decrease...
View ArticleResearchers find little correlation between microbial gene expression and...
A new study challenges the orthodoxy of microbiology that in response to environmental changes, bacterial genes will boost production of needed proteins and decrease production of those that aren't....
View ArticleExpressly unfit for the laboratory: Little correlation between microbial gene...
A new study challenges the orthodoxy of microbiology, which holds that in response to environmental changes, bacterial genes will boost production of needed proteins and decrease production of those...
View ArticleResearchers determine factors that influence spinach contamination pre-harvest
A team of researchers from Texas and Colorado has identified a variety of factors that influence the likelihood of E. coli contamination of spinach on farms prior to harvest. Their research is...
View ArticleNew palm-sized microarray technique grows 1,200 individual cultures of microbes
A new palm-sized microarray that holds 1,200 individual cultures of fungi or bacteria could enable faster, more efficient drug discovery, according to a study published in mBio, the online open-access...
View Article[Perspective] Microbiology: Some Like It Hot, Some Not
The microorganism composition of dryland soils depends on regional climate. [Also see Report by Garcia-Pichel et al.]Author: Jayne Belnap
View Article[Perspective] Microbiology: Eliminating Malaria
Global eradication requires concerted efforts to combat emerging resistance to the potent antimalarial artemisinin.<br><br>Author: David A. Fidock
View ArticleBiochemists identify protease substrates important for bacterial growth and...
Reporting this month in Molecular Microbiology, Peter Chien and colleagues at the University of Massachusetts Amherst describe using a combination of biochemistry and mass spectrometry to "trap" scores...
View ArticleIs it alive or dead?
To the ancients, probing the philosophical question of how to distinguish the living from the dead centered on the "mystery of the vital heat." To modern microbiology, this question was always less...
View ArticleGenomes of cholera bacteria from Haiti confirm epidemic originated from...
The strain of cholera that has sickened thousands in Haiti came from a single source and was not repeatedly introduced to the island over the past three years as some have thought, according to a new...
View ArticleCorals cozy up with bacterial buddies
Corals may let certain bacteria get under its skin, according to a new study by researchers at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) and King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST)...
View Article[News & Analysis] Microbiology: Ever-Bigger Viruses Shake Tree of Life
With genomes the size of a parasitic eukaryote, newly described viruses vie for a place on the tree of life.<br><br>Author: Elizabeth Pennisi
View ArticleMeth Use Tied to Deadly Brain Infection in Mouse Study
TUESDAY, July 30 (HealthDay News) — Using the drug methamphetamine may increase the risk of death from a fungal lung infection called cryptococcosis, according to the results of a new study conducted...
View Article'Evolution will punish you if you're selfish and mean'
Two Michigan State University evolutionary biologists offer new evidence that evolution doesn't favor the selfish, disproving a theory popularized in 2012."We found evolution will punish you if you're...
View ArticleMRSA strain in humans originally came from cattle
A strain of bacteria that causes skin and soft tissue infections in humans originally came from cattle, according to a study to be published in mBio®, the online open-access journal of the American...
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