Aug 14, 2025 by News Staff

Researchers from the University of Tübingen and the University of Würzburg have found that ingredients of our daily diet — including caffeine...

Jul 14, 2025 by News Staff

To identify new antimicrobial candidates, scientists at the University of Pennsylvania mined global venomics datasets using a deep-learning system called...

Jun 24, 2025 by News Staff

Paracetamol, a pain medication also known as acetaminophen, is traditionally made from dwindling supplies of fossil fuels including crude oil. Thousands...

Aug 30, 2024 by News Staff

A team of researchers from Finland and Norway has identified two potential antivirulence compounds for enteropathogenic Escherichia coli (EPEC) infections...

Nov 27, 2023 by News Staff

In humans, repeated encounters with a wide variety of stimuli can reactivate specific neurons to produce long-term memories. In new research, biologists...

Apr 20, 2023 by Enrico de Lazaro

Cranberries — as cranberry juice, tablets or capsules — have been used for many years to prevent urinary tract infections (UTIs). They contain...

Apr 13, 2021 by News Staff

Few-layered black phosphorus is highly antimicrobial toward resistant bacteria and fungal species; it is one of the thinnest antimicrobial coatings developed...

May 5, 2020 by News Staff

A team of researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has demonstrated that single-celled microorganisms such as Escherichia coli and...

Apr 9, 2020 by News Staff

As ‘superbug’ bacteria resistant to commonly prescribed antibiotics have become a global threat to public health in recent years, noble metals, such...

Mar 23, 2020 by News Staff

An international team of researchers has developed a micro- and nano-fluidic device stacked with magnetic beads that can rapidly isolate, retrieve and...

Jan 29, 2020 by News Staff

A team of scientists has developed visualizing paper-based bandages that can sense drug-resistant and drug-sensitive bacteria in wounds and implement a...

Jan 14, 2020 by News Staff

In a series of experiments, a team of biologists at the University of California, San Diego studied the structure of growing colonies comprised of two...

Oct 10, 2019 by News Staff

Human breast milk contains many known antimicrobial and immunomodulatory molecules, including immunoglobulins, antimicrobial peptides, and fatty acids....

Jul 25, 2019 by News Staff

Apples are among the most consumed fruits worldwide. They represent a source of direct human exposure to bacterial communities. A new study, published...

Jun 28, 2019 by News Staff

In a new study published this month in the Journal of Medical Entomology, researchers from Aston University collected and analyzed 19,937 flying insects...

Jun 3, 2019 by News Staff

When treated with proanthocyanidins, bioactive compounds derived from the fruits of the American cranberry (Vaccinium macrocarpon), human pathogens Escherichia...

Oct 3, 2018 by News Staff

A new study, led by researchers at the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel, demonstrates the toxicity effect of artificial sweeteners on Escherichia...

May 30, 2018 by News Staff

Activation of the immune system by the Escherichia coli infection may temporarily disrupt formation of long-term memories in older rats by reducing levels...

Nov 24, 2017 by News Staff

A team of synthetic biologists from Columbia University has successfully converted an immune system of the gut bacterium Escherichia coli into a microscopic...

Oct 24, 2017 by News Staff

Researchers involved in the E. coli long-term evolution experiment (LTEE) have debunked an established evolutionary theory with a study that provides a...