Key step in how bacteria acquire drug resistance revealed
Researchers have imaged a major component in conjugation—the process bacteria use to share DNA with each other.
Researchers have imaged a major component in conjugation—the process bacteria use to share DNA with each other.
Cell & Microbiology
Nov 25, 2021
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An FDA-approved drug for hepatitis C can increase bacterial sensitivity to antibiotics and reduce the likelihood of antibiotic resistance, according to a new study led by New York University researchers published in Cell ...
Biochemistry
Nov 23, 2021
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A study out of the Michael G. DeGroote Institute for Infectious Disease Research at McMaster University has resulted in the discovery of a promising new antimalarial compound.
Biochemistry
Oct 27, 2021
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It is estimated that 80% of women will suffer from vaginal candidiasis at least once in their lives. In addition to superficial infections, which can be oral or vaginal and do not usually have a serious prognosis, fungi of ...
Molecular & Computational biology
Oct 25, 2021
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In the fight against multidrug-resistant bacteria, scientists in Sweden have developed a new kind of antibiotic-free protection for wounds that kills drug-resistant bacteria and induces the body's own immune responses to ...
Biochemistry
Oct 14, 2021
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Detailed and extensive genome sequencing of a subspecies of rat-infecting malaria parasites should instruct human malaria research.
Cell & Microbiology
May 31, 2021
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Researchers at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center have developed a first-of-its-kind artificial intelligence (AI)-based tool that can accurately identify rare groups of biologically important cells from single-cell ...
Molecular & Computational biology
May 20, 2021
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Researchers at the University of Bristol have discovered how microbes responsible for human African sleeping sickness produce sex cells.
Cell & Microbiology
May 11, 2021
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Antibiotic resistance in E. coli has been steadily increasing since the early 2000s despite attempts to control it, a new study suggests. In the biggest genomic survey of E. coli to date, that took more than 16 years in Norway, ...
Cell & Microbiology
May 10, 2021
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New insight into how antimicrobial peptides destroy the membrane may help in designing better drugs against multi-drug resistant bacterial infections. Now that we are in the midst of a pandemic, it is easy to forget the perhaps ...
Cell & Microbiology
Mar 18, 2021
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