Hybridization Leads to New Pathogen Species
A newly published study from scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology in Marburg and Aarhus University in Denmark shows that new fungi,…
Microbiology News
Transgenic Mosquitoes Can’t Transmit Malaria
A team of researchers from UC Irvine and the Pasteur Institute in Paris have produced a model of the Anopheles stephensi mosquito that impairs the…
Understanding the Internal Process That Makes Salmonella Dangerous
A recently published study examines why Salmonella becomes dangerously virulent. While examining signals from outside the bacteria, they found that changes in the level of…
Increasing Th17 Cells in the Gut May Improve the Control of HIV Growth
A new study from a team of microbiologists and immunologists suggests that treatment aimed at increasing Th17 cells in the gut may improve the control…
Latency Develops Soon After Infection and Slows When Antiretroviral Therapy is Given
While studying 27 patients with acute HIV infection, researchers at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine found that early treatment reduced the production…
Oxygen Depletion and Acidification Accelerate Coral Death
To better understand how to protect coral reefs, a team of microbiologists are investigating how environmental changes, such as oxygen depletion and ocean acidification, create…
Marine Worm Thrives on Steady Diet of Deadly Poisons
If you thought living on fast-food, candy, soda and red meat was dangerous, try a diet of carbon monoxide and hydrogen sulfide. That’s what researchers…
New DNA Entity in Mammalian Cells
A new discovery of three unique non-repetitive microDNA sequences was made by a team of researchers at the University of North Carolina. Their research shows…
Widespread Presence of Antibiotic Resistant Bacteria in Agricultural Soils
With infectious disease deaths on the rise, a new study gives reason for concern. Researchers found that agricultural soils contained more diverse populations of drug…
Trip to Rainforest Yields Organisms Capable of Degrading Polyurethane
Yale undergraduates participating in Yale’s Rainforest Expedition and Laboratory course had their findings on organisms capable of degrading polyurethane published in the journal Applied and…
Ecuador Rainforest Fungus Survives on Polyurethane without Oxygen
Polyurethane is one of the most commonly used plastics in different types of products, but it’s also one that takes an extremely long period of…
MSU Researchers Show How New Viruses Evolve Through Mutations
Researchers at Michigan State University are studying how viruses evolve and potentially become deadly mutations. For the first time ever, scientists were able show how…
New Protein Discovery Could Lead to HIV Crippling Drugs
Researchers at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health are studying the complex interactions between HIV proteins and human proteins. By focusing on the interaction…
Scientists Discover Dead Hydrothermal Vents Contain Life
Based on the samples provided by U.S. Navy deep sea submersible Alvin, USC microbiologists discovered that life continues at hydrothermal vents even after they go…
Relative Refutation of the Claim of Arsenic-Based Life
A controversial study from 2010 was relatively refuted by a group of scientists, trying to duplicate the findings that were published in Science. Researchers have…
