A team of researchers led by RCSI (Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland), have developed a new treatment for the particularly difficult-to-treat bone infection, osteomyelitis.
Biochemistry
Jan 30, 2019
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University of Central Florida College of Medicine researcher Renee Fleeman is on a mission to kill drug-resistant bacteria, and her latest study has identified a therapy that can penetrate the slime that such infections use ...
Cell & Microbiology
May 2, 2024
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A research team led by Professor Hongzhe Sun, Chair Professor from the Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, in collaboration with Dr. Pak-Leung Ho, Director of the HKU Carol Yu Center for Infection from the Department ...
Cell & Microbiology
Nov 5, 2020
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The discovery, published today in Nature Communications by researchers from La Trobe University and the University of Queensland, provides details on how proteins in the outer membrane of bacteria—the bacteria's 'superglue'—are ...
Cell & Microbiology
Apr 29, 2019
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A phage is a virus that invades a bacterial cell. While harmless to human cells, phages are potentially deadly to bacteria since many phages enter a cell in order to hijack its machinery in order to reproduce itself, thus ...
Cell & Microbiology
Oct 27, 2020
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In contrast to previous assumptions, the defense hormones salicylic acid and jasmonic acid do not always suppress each other in regulating plant chemical defenses against pests and pathogens. In trees, the interplay of both ...
Plants & Animals
May 3, 2022
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In all living organisms, DNA replication is essential to ensure the genetic fidelity of the next generation. However, bacteria can also transfer genetic information horizontally to other bacteria. Many species of pathogenic ...
Cell & Microbiology
Feb 3, 2023
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To successfully infect their hosts, bacteria need to evade the host immune system in order to reproduce and spread. Over the course of evolution, hosts—such as humans—develop increasingly sophisticated defenses against ...
Evolution
Mar 11, 2019
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Antibiotic resistant bacteria are killing more people each year, but scientists are turning to their natural virus predators to treat infections, as well as new vaccines to prevent disease.
Cell & Microbiology
Jun 28, 2021
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A breakthrough in the fight against drug-resistant infections is one step closer following the discovery of the structure of NDM-1: a vicious form of bacteria that is currently resistant to the most powerful antibiotics available.
Cell & Microbiology
Sep 7, 2011
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