Researchers at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden have discovered a mechanism through which meningitis-causing bacteria can evade the immune system. In laboratory tests, they found that Streptococcus pneumoniae and Haemophilus ...
Cell & Microbiology
Apr 29, 2021
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A team of researchers from the Institute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB, affiliated to USI Università della Svizzera italiana, Switzerland) have discovered and identified a molecule—SIGN-R1—capable of recognizing the ...
Cell & Microbiology
Jul 30, 2019
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Some of the world's most deadly and drug-resistant pathogens work collaboratively to become more powerful and infectious, a new study has found.
Ecology
Feb 13, 2023
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Infections by microbes like bacteria and fungi that don't respond to available antimicrobial treatments pose an increasingly dangerous public health threat around the world. In the United States alone, such infections kill ...
Biotechnology
Apr 3, 2018
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Researchers at the Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG) and Pulmobiotics S.L have created the first 'living medicine' to treat antibiotic-resistant bacteria growing on the surfaces of medical implants. The researchers created ...
Cell & Microbiology
Oct 6, 2021
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A novel anti-inflammatory therapy designed by Vanderbilt University Medical Center investigators prevents acute lung injury in mice exposed to an inflammation-causing toxin, the researchers report in the journal Molecular ...
Cell & Microbiology
Mar 11, 2009
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In 1857, a young pediatrician named Theodor Escherich discovered what may very well be the most well-studied organism today. The rod-shaped bacterium named Escherichia coli, better known as E. coli, is a very common microbe ...
Cell & Microbiology
Jul 5, 2023
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Many disease-causing bacteria like Streptococcus pneumoniae (S. pneumoniae) are encased in a sugar layer called the capsular polysaccharide (CPS). This layer is often essential for infections.
Cell & Microbiology
Apr 17, 2023
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Unparalleled insights into the secret life of Streptococcus pneumoniae, the bacterium responsible for hundreds of thousands of infant deaths each year, have been revealed by new research from the Wellcome Sanger Institute, ...
Cell & Microbiology
Oct 10, 2022
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In spring 2010, nearly a third of the chamois living in a region of northern Austria suddenly died of unexplained causes. Concerned hunters and foresters sent the carcasses to the University of Veterinary Medicine, Vienna ...
Plants & Animals
May 16, 2014
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