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Researchers discover how good gut bacteria can help reduce heart disease risk

Scientists have discovered that one of the good bacteria found in the human gut has a benefit that has remained unrecognized until now: the potential to reduce the risk for heart disease.

9 Jul 2020

Bacteria-induced cell fusion provokes the immune system and causes host cell destruction

Burkholderia pseudomallei is a bacterium in the soil that causes melioidosis, a tropical disease with high morbidity and mortality.

9 Jul 2020

Super-resolution microscopy methods reveal the smallest cell structures

Theoretically, high-resolution microscopy should make it possible to capture cell structures that have a resolution of a few nanometers.

8 Jul 2020

Cornell pathologists identify new fungal pathogen that causes bitter rot disease in apples

In a study of New York state apple orchards, Cornell University plant pathologists have identified a new fungal pathogen that causes bitter rot disease in apples. In addition, a second related fungus known to cause rot disease in other fruits was found for the first time in apples.

7 Jul 2020

Understanding the role of a cyanobacterial protein in photosynthesis

Cyanobacteria, commonly referred to as blue-green algae, are the first organisms on earth that learned to extract electrons from water and convert sunlight to usable energy through photosynthesis.

7 Jul 2020

Researchers identify protective antibodies for rare, polio-like disease in children

Researchers at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Purdue University and the University of Wisconsin-Madison have isolated human monoclonal antibodies that potentially can prevent a rare but devastating polio-like illness in children linked to a respiratory viral infection.

6 Jul 2020

Algae show excellent potential for green energy production

A majority of the substances that are used everyday work only in the right three dimensional (3D) structure.

6 Jul 2020

Combination of ExM and SIM helps observe 3D ultrastructure of synaptonemal complex

The development of egg and sperm cells in all mammals, including humans, is significantly contributed by the synaptonemal complex—a ladder-like cell structure.

6 Jul 2020

Flame sterilization of shake-flasks affects cell culture

Researchers commonly culture bacteria for many purposes, such as to screen pharmaceuticals and manufacture vaccines. In these cases, shake flasks have been commonly and generally used for over 90 years to cultivate microbes.

2 Jul 2020

Study reveals malaria's secret to surviving in the blood stream

New research from the Francis Crick Institute has found how the malaria parasite protects itself from toxic compounds in red blood cells.

2 Jul 2020

Long-term culture of human pancreatic slices as a model to study regeneration of beta cells

Scientists from the Diabetes Research Institute at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine have developed a method allowing for the long-term culture of "pancreatic slices" to study the regeneration of the human pancreas in real time.

2 Jul 2020

Wild strains of salmonella find a backdoor entry into plants

As the world wrestles with the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, which arose after the virus jumped from an animal species to the human species, University of Delaware researchers are learning about new ways other pathogens are jumping from plants to people.

1 Jul 2020

Microbiology

Researchers discover how good gut bacteria can help reduce heart disease risk

Bacteria-induced cell fusion provokes the immune system and causes host cell destruction

Super-resolution microscopy methods reveal the smallest cell structures

Cornell pathologists identify new fungal pathogen that causes bitter rot disease in apples

Understanding the role of a cyanobacterial protein in photosynthesis

Researchers identify protective antibodies for rare, polio-like disease in children

Algae show excellent potential for green energy production

Combination of ExM and SIM helps observe 3D ultrastructure of synaptonemal complex

Flame sterilization of shake-flasks affects cell culture

Study reveals malaria's secret to surviving in the blood stream

Long-term culture of human pancreatic slices as a model to study regeneration of beta cells

Wild strains of salmonella find a backdoor entry into plants

Even the sickest COVID-19 patients produce T cells to fight back the virus

Study provides roadmap for developing effective vaccine against Staphylococcal infections

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Study shows raw milk harbors antimicrobial-resistant genes

Anammox bacteria show ability to 'breathe' solid-state matter

Existing drugs could disrupt SARS-CoV-2 from hijacking cells

Researchers show how gut microbiome helps people resist cholera

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