Remotely operated vehicle (ROV Jason) takes samples of hydrothermal microbial mat 2000m below sea level in the Guaymas Basin, Mexico. Credit: Image courtesy of Peter…
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The researchers suggest that the findings could lead to a new approach in enhancing therapies and ultimately finding a cure for HIV. In their quest…
Nasal vaccines are a type of immunization that are administered through the nasal passages rather than through injections. The advantage of nasal vaccines is that…
Preterm birth, also known as premature birth, is the delivery of a baby before 37 weeks of pregnancy. This can lead to a range of…
Enceladus black smoker at the Aurora Vent Field. Credit: HACON cruise 2021, REV Ocean In the depths of the ocean, along tectonic plate boundaries, hydrothermal…
Black cones show water molecules being oriented in the electric field at the interface with the lipid. Credit: Carlos Marques, ENS Lyon Powerful electric fields…
A robot punches out pinhead-sized pieces from a gel layer. The narrow blue bands contain proteins from a bacterial culture. Subsequently, the proteins contained in…
Heliozoan Raphidocystis contractilis withdraws its axopodia a few milliseconds after encountering an external stimulus. Researchers from Okayama University, Japan report that microtubule dynamics hold the…
“Nanowires” produced by Geobacter in response to an electric field applied to electricity-producing biofilms. These nanowires are composed of cytochrome OmcZ and show 1000-fold higher…
Graphical abstract of the research method. Credit: Maaike Goudriaan, NIOZ Laboratory experiment shows that bacteria really eat and digest plastic. The bacterium Rhodococcus ruber eats…
Natural products containing benzoxazolinate, a structure with two rings, are excellent candidates for pharmaceutically valuable substances, such as antibiotics, anticancer drugs, or immunosuppressants. But how…
CRISPR (Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats) is a revolutionary gene editing technology that allows scientists to make precise changes to the DNA of living…
Illustration of bacteriophage viruses attacking bacterium. Scientists harness bacteria-eating viruses to create a powerful new weapon against contamination and infection. Researchers have developed a way…
The new technology correctly identified 99% of confirmed bacterial sepsis cases, 92% of confirmed viral sepsis cases, and predicted sepsis in 74% of clinically suspected…
The researchers believe that their method will also be effective in discovering genetic factors necessary for the generation of rose flavor by yeast in alcoholic…
In lab tests, the new compound destroys 10 strains of antibiotic-resistant MRSA. A compound that both inhibits the MRSA superbug and renders it more vulnerable…
A digital illustration inspired by methane-eating archaea and the Borgs that assimilate them. Credit: Jenny Nuss/Berkeley Lab A newly discovered type of transferrable DNADNA, or…
Viruses are using information from their environment to “decide” when to sit tight inside their hosts and when to multiply and burst out, killing the…
Phages can sense bacterial DNA damage, which triggers them to replicate and jump ship. Viruses may be ‘watching’ you – some microbes lie in wait…
[unable to retrieve full-text content] Scientists used data from over 300 human fecal microbiota transplants to gain an ecological understanding of what happens when two…