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July 19, 2024
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July 16, 2024 — Researchers have discovered that a single-celled organism, a close relative of animals, harbors the remnants of ancient giant viruses woven into its own genetic code. This finding sheds light on how complex organisms may have acquired some of their ...
July 17, 2024 — Most influenza viruses enter human or animal cells through specific pathways on the cells' surface. Researchers have now discovered that certain human flu viruses and avian flu viruses can also use a second entry pathway, a protein complex of the ...
July 18, 2024 — A multitude of new genomic sequence data fills major gaps in the fruit fly tree of life, researchers ...
July 18, 2024 — A group of small, freshwater animals (bdelloid rotifers) protect themselves from infections using antibiotic recipes 'stolen' from bacteria, according to new research. This raises the potential that rotifers are producing novel antimicrobials that ...
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July 18, 2024 — New research is shedding light on how viruses ensure their survival by precisely timing the release of new viruses. The discovery offers a new theoretical framework for understanding these dynamic ...
July 17, 2024 — Polyphenols are generally toxic to microorganisms. In peatlands, scientists thought microorganisms avoided this toxicity by degrading polyphenols using an oxygen-dependent enzyme, and thus that ...
July 17, 2024 — Researchers have uncovered an under the sea phenomenon where coral-destroying crown-of-thorns starfish larvae have been feasting on blue-green algae bacteria known as 'sea ...
July 17, 2024 — When it comes to diatoms that live in the ocean, new research suggests that photosynthesis is not the only strategy for accumulating carbon. Instead, these single-celled plankton are also building ...
July 17, 2024 — Pet cats may be excellent animal models for the study of obesity origins and treatment in humans, a new study of feline gut microbes suggests -- and both species would likely get healthier in the ...
July 17, 2024 — Biology researchers have developed a new antibody therapy that can neutralize a wide variety of HIV-1 strains. They found success in an unlikely source -- ...
July 17, 2024 — The human genome is filled with flecks of DNA left behind by viruses that infected primate ancestors tens of millions of years ago. Scientists used to think they were harmless, but new research shows ...
July 9, 2024 — Tens of millions of still-unknown or misunderstood viruses can cause diseases -- including new pandemics -- and affect the health of valuable ...
July 16, 2024 — Researchers studying antimicrobial-resistant E. coli -- the leading cause of human death due to antimicrobial resistance worldwide -- have identified a mechanism in dogs that may render multiple ...
July 16, 2024 — CRISPR-Cas systems, defense systems in bacteria, have become a plentiful source of technologies for molecular diagnostics. Researchers have now ...
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July 16, 2024 — Researchers have developed a strategy to identify new antimicrobial drugs with therapeutic promise from bacterial datasets, providing clues for discovering alternatives to traditional ...
July 15, 2024 — Nitrogen fertilizers make it possible to feed the world's growing population, but they are also costly adn harm ecosystems. However, a few plants have evolved the ability to acquire their own ...
July 15, 2024 — A study helps explain why dairy cows infected by highly pathogenic avian influenza are shedding the virus in their milk. Their findings could help develop biosecurity measures aimed at slowing the ...
July 12, 2024 — Researchers have shed light on Earth's earliest ecosystem, showing that within a few hundred million years of planetary formation, life on Earth was already ...
July 12, 2024 — Researchers have identified how a common bacterium is able to manipulate the human immune system during respiratory infections and cause persistent ...
July 11, 2024 — A method to screen a wide variety of drug candidates without laborious purification steps could advance the fight against drug-resistant ...
July 11, 2024 — An invasive fungus that colonizes the skin of hibernating bats with deadly consequences is a stealthy invader that uses multiple strategies to slip into the small mammals' skin cells and quietly ...
Researchers Develop a Way to Make Lifesaving Phages Accessible, Transportable and Much Easier to Use
July 11, 2024 — Researchers have developed a simple way to bring bacteriophage therapy into much closer reach for clinicians struggling to save patients with antimicrobial-resistant infections. The technology makes ...
July 11, 2024 — Researchers have found that the key to a quick and cost-effective mapping of biodiversity has been right in front of our eyes all along, but at the same time invisible -- i.e., in the air that ...
July 11, 2024 — Native plants and non-native crops do not fare well in proximity to one another, attracting pests that spread diseases in both directions, according to two new ...
July 11, 2024 — Acute graft-versus-host disease occurs when donor immune cells attack the recipient's tissues after an allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (allo-HCT). Researchers recently ...
July 10, 2024 — The pathogen that causes bacterial spot is very good at what it does. Forming small lesions on the rinds of pumpkins, melons, cucumbers, and other cucurbits, it mars the fruits' appearance and ...
July 10, 2024 — When confronted with an antibiotic, toxic substance, or other source of considerable stress, bacteria are able to activate a defense mechanism using cell-to-cell communication to 'warn' ...
July 10, 2024 — Mosses, liverworts, ferns and algae may offer an exciting new research frontier in the global challenge of protecting crops from the threat of ...
July 10, 2024 — An unexpected find has enabled important progress to be made in the battle against harmful ...
July 10, 2024 — Ancient DNA from bones and teeth hints at a role of the plague in Stone Age population collapse. Contrary to previous beliefs, the plague may have diminished Europe's populations long before the ...
July 9, 2024 — Investigators sought to help figure out how to send materials like probiotics into space and to better treat a variety of gastrointestinal (GI) and metabolic diseases. The team's formulations ...
July 8, 2024 — While H5N1 avian influenza virus taken from infected cow's milk makes mice and ferrets sick when dripped into their noses, airborne transmission of the virus between ferrets -- a common model ...
July 8, 2024 — Researchers have taken a leap forward in understanding how we might fight back against the potentially deadly MRSA bacterium. They have shown in an animal model that targeting a key suppressive ...
July 8, 2024 — A recently published study demonstrates how sucralose affects the behavior of cyanobacteria -- an aquatic photosynthetic bacteria -- and diatoms, microscopic algae that account for more than 30% of ...
Tuesday, July 16, 2024
Monday, July 15, 2024
- Building a Roadmap to Bioengineer Plants That Produce Their Own Nitrogen Fertilizer
- Receptors Make Dairy Cows a Prime Target for Influenza
Friday, July 12, 2024
- Insight Into One of Life's Earliest Ancestors Revealed in New Study
- Respiratory Bacteria 'turn Off' Immune System to Survive
Thursday, July 11, 2024
- A Comprehensive Derivative Synthesis Method for Development of New Antimicrobial Drugs
- A Stealth Fungus Has Decimated North American Bats but Scientists May Be a Step Closer to Treating White-Nose Syndrome
- Researchers Develop a Way to Make Lifesaving Phages Accessible, Transportable and Much Easier to Use
- Mapping the World's Fungi from Air Samples
- Wild Plants and Crops Don't Make Great Neighbors, Research Finds
- Phage-Derived Enzyme Targets E. Faecalis Biofilms to Mitigate Acute Graft-Versus-Host Disease
Wednesday, July 10, 2024
- Pumpkin Disease Not Evolving, Could Make a Difference for Management
- Discovery of a New Defense Mechanism in Bacteria
- Not So Simple: Mosses and Ferns Offer New Hope for Crop Protection
- Big Gain in Battle Against Harmful Bacteria
- The Plague May Have Caused the Downfall of the Stone Age Farmers
Tuesday, July 9, 2024
Monday, July 8, 2024
- Raw Milk Is Risky, but Airborne Transmission of H5N1 from Cow's Milk Is Inefficient in Mammals
- Scientists Discover How to Improve Vaccine Responses to Potentially Deadly Bacterium
- Study Reveals Environmental Impact of Artificial Sweeteners
- New Bio-Based Tool Quickly Detects Concerning Coronavirus Variants
Friday, July 5, 2024
Thursday, July 4, 2024
- Not So Selfish After All: Viruses Use Freeloading Genes as Weapons
- Scientists Map How Deadly Bacteria Evolved to Become Epidemic
Wednesday, July 3, 2024
- Retreating Glaciers: Fungi Enhance Carbon Storage in Young Arctic Soils
- Pasteurization Inactivates Highly Infectious Avian Flu in Milk, Study Suggests
Tuesday, July 2, 2024
- Bacteria Detected in Tattoo and Permanent Makeup Inks, Study Finds
- Study Illuminates Cues Algae Use to 'listen' To Their Environment
Monday, July 1, 2024
- Shrinking Glaciers: Microscopic Fungi Enhance Soil Carbon Storage in New Landscapes Created by Shrinking Arctic Glaciers
- Degradation of Cell Wall Key in the Spread of Antibiotic Resistance
- Researchers Thwart Resistant Bacteria's Strategy
Thursday, June 27, 2024
- New Mathematical Model Sheds Light on the Absence of Breastfeeding in Male Mammals
- Long-Standing Marine Mystery Solved: How Algae Get Nitrogen to Grow
- Bird Flu Stays Stable on Milking Equipment for at Least One Hour
- A Promising Weapon Against Measles
- Under Pressure: How Comb Jellies Have Adapted to Life at the Bottom of the Ocean
- Why the Harsh Snowball Earth Kick-Started Our Earliest Multicellular Ancestors
Wednesday, June 26, 2024
Tuesday, June 25, 2024
- 3D-Printed Chip Sensor Detects Foodborne Pathogens for Safer Products
- Should You Eat More Dietary Fiber? New Study Says It Depends
Friday, June 21, 2024
Thursday, June 20, 2024
- Wild Chimpanzees Seek out Medicinal Plants to Treat Illness and Injuries
- Wild Yeasts from Patagonia Could Yield New Flavors of Lagers
Wednesday, June 19, 2024
- Blessing in Disguise: Mycoviruses Enhance Fungicide Effectiveness Against Plant Pathogens
- Wooden Surfaces May Have Natural Antiviral Properties
Monday, June 17, 2024
- Treating the Gut-Brain Connection With B Vitamins to Treat Parkinson's Disease
- A High-Fat Diet May Fuel Anxiety
Saturday, June 15, 2024
Friday, June 14, 2024
- A New Weapon in the Battle Against Antibiotic Resistance: Temperature
- Infectious H5N1 Influenza Virus in Raw Milk Rapidly Declines With Heat Treatment
Thursday, June 13, 2024
- Can Engineered Plants Help Make Baby Formula as Nutritious as Breast Milk?
- The Scary, Yet Promising World of Phages, the Pathogen's Pathogen
Wednesday, June 12, 2024
Tuesday, June 11, 2024
- Soil Bacteria Respire More CO2 After Sugar-Free Meals
- Virus-Like Nanoparticles Control the Multicellular Organization and Reproduction of Host Bacteria
- Scientists Unlock Secrets of How Archaea, the Third Domain of Life, Makes Energy
- New Insights on Polymicrobial Infections in Chronic Lung Diseases
- Novel Lipopeptide Proves Lethal Against Staphylococcus Areus
Monday, June 10, 2024
- Breakthrough in Creating Cyclic Peptide Opens the Way for New Antibiotics
- Protein Study Could Help Researchers Develop New Antibiotics
- How Human Derived RNA Fragments Help the Hepatitis E Virus
- Lung Organoids Unveil Secret: How Pathogens Infect Human Lung Tissue
- Gut Microbes from Aged Mice Induce Inflammation in Young Mice, Study Finds
Wednesday, June 5, 2024
- Researchers Solve 2,000-Year-Old Mystery of the Shipworm
- Bone Loss Drugs Can Help Azoles Fight Fungal Infections
- Unlocking the World Around Us for Next-Gen Antibiotics
Tuesday, June 4, 2024
- Giant Viruses Found on Greenland Ice Sheet
- An Anti-Inflammatory Curbs Spread of Fungi Causing Serious Blood Infections
- Small, but Smart: How Symbiotic Bacteria Adapt to Big Environmental Changes
Monday, June 3, 2024
- Oral Nucleoside Antiviral Is Progressing Toward Future Pandemic Preparedness
- Fungus Breaks Down Ocean Plastic
Friday, May 31, 2024
- Antibodies May Aid Effort to Fight Influenza B
- Researchers Discover 'trojan Horse' Virus Hiding in Human Parasite
- The World's Most Powerful Anti-Fungal Chemistries Cause Fungal Pathogens to Self-Destruct
Thursday, May 30, 2024
- New, Modified CRISPR Protein Can Fit Inside Virus Used for Gene Therapy
- Scientists Invent 'living Bioelectronics' That Can Sense and Heal Skin
- Novel Virus Identified in Zebrafish from the Pet Trade Causes Disease in Laboratory Fish
Wednesday, May 29, 2024
- Antibiotic Pollution Disrupts the Gut Microbiome and Blocks Memory in Aquatic Snails
- New Antibiotic Kills Pathogenic Bacteria, Spares Healthy Gut Microbes
- Orchids Support Seedlings Through 'parental Nurture' Via Shared Underground Fungal Networks
- Bird Flu: Diverse Range of Vaccines Platforms 'crucial' For Enhancing Human Pandemic Preparedness
Tuesday, May 28, 2024
- Intermittent Fasting Shows Promise in Improving Gut Health, Weight Management
- Mechanisms for Selective Multiple Sclerosis Treatment Strategy
- Finnish Vole Fever Spreading Further South
Friday, May 24, 2024
- High H5N1 Influenza Levels Found in Mice Given Raw Milk from Infected Dairy Cows
- Observing Mammalian Cells With Superfast Soft X-Rays
Thursday, May 23, 2024
- Developing Novel Methods to Detect Antibiotics in Vegetables and Earthworms
- Key Role of Plant-Bacteria Communication for the Assembly of a Healthy Plant Microbiome Supporting Sustainable Plant Nutrition
- New Approach to Epstein-Barr Virus and Resulting Diseases
- Mistaken Identity Cleared Up of Foodborne Pathogen Causing Severe Symptoms in Children
- Tracking Down the Genetic Causes of Lupus to Personalize Treatment
Wednesday, May 22, 2024
- How the 'home' Environment Influences Microbial Interactions
- Milk Samples from the 1940s Shed New Light on Antibiotic Resistance
- New Insights Into the Degradation Dynamics of Organic Material in the Seafloor
Tuesday, May 21, 2024
- Body Lice May Be Bigger Plague Spreaders Than Previously Thought
- Drug-Like Inhibitor Shows Promise in Preventing Flu
- Matcha Mouthwash Inhibits Bacteria That Causes Periodontitis
- Researchers Find Unique Adaptations of Fungus Associated With Bee Bread
- Rabies Outbreaks in Costa Rica Cattle Linked to Deforestation