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Microorganisms play an important role in regulating plant-herbivore interactions. However, research has mainly focused on the crops and generalist insects. In the obligate pollinating systems, the cheater visitors are rare, ...
Scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology have successfully enhanced cultivation of a microorganism that can fix nitrogen (N2) while producing methane (CH4) and ammonia (NH3) and investigated exciting ...
An international team of scientists investigating transmission of a deadly drug resistant bacteria that rivals MRSA, has found that while the bugs are found in livestock, pets and the wider environment, they are rarely transmitted ...
Kiwifruit is popular with consumers due to its unique flavor and high concentration of vitamin C, minerals, and other nutrients. As demand grows and the kiwifruit producing area in China expands, post-harvest rot diseases ...
A Nebraska-led coming attraction may soon pop into a global blockbuster.
New research shows that the flavoring of various soft cheeses is due in part to the bacteria that colonize them during the ripening process. The research is published in Microbiology Spectrum.
In the summer of 2020, months after the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a global pandemic, Samira Mubareka and her colleagues began testing wildlife in Ontario and Quebec for the new coronavirus SARS-CoV-2.
Social connections are essential for good health and well-being in social animals, such as ourselves and other primates. There is also increasing evidence that the gut microbiome—through the so-called "gut-brain axis"—plays ...
For the first time, scientists at the Federal University of São Paulo (UNIFESP) in Brazil have shown that infection by SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, changes the functioning of host cell RNA. They arrived at ...
Klebsiella pneumoniae are bacteria that can cause various infections. These bacteria are becoming increasingly resistant to treatment, leading to life-threatening illnesses.
