TOPICSBacteria
Bacteria
Earliest life ancestor insights from a recent study
Impact of the last universal common ancestor on early Earth.
AI detects drug-resistant typhoid in hours from microscopy images
Inferring ciprofloxacin susceptibility in salmonella with AI and imaging.
Avian flu’s infectivity is neutralized by milk pasteurization
Study examines deadly bird flu in US dairy products.
Scientists trace the evolution of deadly bacteria into epidemics
Evolution of Pseudomonas aeruginosa for specific hosts.
Mixing antimicrobial peptides can slow antibiotic resistance
Pseudomonas exposed to mixtures instead of single peptides did not gain resistance.
Undergrad discovers key to improved Crohn’s treatments
Controlled pediatric Crohn's still shows duodenal microbiota imbalance.
Exploring the bacterial universe
Boosting bacterial DNA transformation with cell-free methylation pattern recreation.
Critical threat of antibiotic resistance to Sub-Saharan African children
UNIGE and HUG studies reveal alarming antibiotic resistance in enterobacteria.
Treating Parkinson’s by targeting the gut-brain axis with B vitamins
Gut microbiota study in Parkinson's using shotgun sequencing.
Using temperature to fight antibiotic resistance
Impact of temperature on antibiotic resistance mutations.
Researchers found giant viruses on Greenland’s ice sheet
The viruses probably regulate the growth of snow algae on the ice by infecting them.
Nematode worms learn to avoid dangerous bacteria
A bacterial molecule triggers the avoidance behavior, which persists for four generations.