New research shows that the gum disease bacterium P. gingivalis can slip into the bloodstream and infiltrate the heart. There, it quietly drives scar tissue buildup -- distorting the heart's ...

The unusual molecular makeup of Borrelia burgdorferi, which causes Lyme disease, may hold clues for understanding and treating the tick-borne disease.

A version of Vibrio natriegens with five unusual edits has begun to remediate as many organic pollutants in industrial ...

Analysing the gene activity of every single bacterial cell in a colony? A new technique of single-cell transcriptomics developed in W rzburg can do this much more efficiently than other methods: It ...

Antibiotic resistance is a pressing issue within the realm of global health, posing significant challenges, particularly in ...

April's clearances included respiratory disease assays, a Gram-negative infection test, and assays to aid the diagnosis and monitoring of thyroid disease.

Discover the essential facts about chancroid, a lesser-known but serious STI that causes painful genital ulcers and increases ...

Researchers led by Professor Erik van Nimwegen at the Biozentrum, University of Basel, have discovered a new mechanism in ...

Researchers at Umeå University, Sweden, and Michigan State University, U.S., have discovered a type of molecule that can kill ...

The use of microorganisms in human industry is ancient, but has increased markedly in recent years. The modern recognition of the role of ...

Researchers have developed the Human Intestinal Bacteria Collection (HiBC), comprising 340 gut bacterial strains from 198 ...

A new modelling study reveals that only 7% of carbapenem-resistant Gram-negative (CRGN) bacterial infections in eight LMICs ...