The natural antibiotic lugdunin, discovered three years ago by Tübingen researchers, attacks pathogenic bacteria in several different ways simultaneously. It also interacts with the defense mechanisms of the human body, ...
Biochemistry
Jun 24, 2019
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Researchers have developed a new AI-driven platform that can analyse how pathogens infect our cells with the precision of a trained biologist.
Cell & Microbiology
Feb 12, 2019
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Urban farmers growing vegetables to feed millions of people in Africa's ever-growing cities could unwittingly be helping to spread disease by irrigating crops with wastewater, a new study reveals.
Environment
Oct 12, 2018
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A study by researchers at Karolinska Institutet, the University of Manchester and Chalmers University of Technology published in CHEM shows that our immune system handles graphene oxide in a manner similar to pathogens, paving ...
Nanomaterials
Jan 26, 2018
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Scientists have shown that the bacterial pathogen Legionella pneumophila has developed a specific strategy to target host cell mitochondria, the organelles in charge of cellular bioenergetics. Their study provides information ...
Cell & Microbiology
Sep 7, 2017
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A bacterium living in the icy-cold waters of Antarctica manages to survive by gripping on to the ice surface. The protein used by the bacterium to do this—a kind of extendable anchor—has been detailed by a group of researchers ...
Cell & Microbiology
Aug 9, 2017
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Yersinia pestis, the bacterium that causes bubonic plague, can survive within the ubiquitous soil protozoan, the amoeba, by producing proteins that protect against the latter microbe's digestion. The research is published ...
Cell & Microbiology
Apr 28, 2017
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Highly resistant to stresses, black fungi are real champions among microorganisms. With the support of the Austrian Science Fund FWF, a research team in Vienna discovered that the fungi owe their qualities to hitherto unknown ...
Biotechnology
Nov 14, 2016
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Yeast cells can survive even when missing certain 'essential' genes, A*STAR researchers have found. This surprising discovery has major ramifications for understanding how cells adapt to challenging situations and for overcoming ...
Biotechnology
Mar 9, 2016
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Research at the University of Liverpool suggests pets and other domesticated animals could provide new clues into the emergence of infections that can spread between animals and humans.
Plants & Animals
May 16, 2014
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