Bacteria, viruses and microbial systems – defence mechanisms, culture methods and the instruments used to study them.
34 articles
A collaboration between American and Indian researchers has produced a nano-biosensor that can detect tuberculosis in early stages. The flexible sensor works coupled to a...
Scientists from the US National Eye Institute (NEI) have found that gut bacteria can trigger autoimmune uveitis, a disease that causes eye inflammation and eventually can lead...
Scientists from Ruhr-Universität Bochum (RUB) have successfully produced biocatalysts from cyanobacteria, microorganisms that only consume water, salts, CO2 and light. The finding, published in the...
Acquisition of antibiotic resistance confers bacteria better growth and increased virulence. The controversial claim comes from researchers at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical...
Scientists from the Centre for Carbohydrate Recognition and Signalling (CARB) from Denmark and New Zealand and their collaborators from the Centre for Complex Carbohydrate Research...
A research group from Tel Aviv University has found a new way to re-sensitize bacteria to antibiotics. In their PNAS publication they describe how they...
Sharklet, the first antimicrobial technology based solely on micropattern, is developed by Sharklet Technologies, Inc. and is one of the countless innovations in the field...
With the use of skin swabs of 400 different body sites of two healthy adult volunteers, researchers at the University of California, San Diego Skaggs...
