To identify new antimicrobial candidates, scientists at the University of Pennsylvania mined global venomics datasets using a deep-learning system called...
Itch is a dominant symptom in dermatitis (eczema), and scratching promotes cutaneous inflammation, thereby worsening disease. However, the mechanisms through...
New research by Harvard Medical School scientists shows that a common skin bacterium called Staphylococcus aureus causes itch by instigating a molecular...
Honey produced by the Australian honeypot ant (Camponotus inflatus) is valued nutritionally and medicinally by Indigenous peoples. In a new study, scientists...
The discovery of antibiotics more than 80 years ago has led to considerable improvements in human and animal health. Although antibiotic resistance in...
A team of materials scientists from RMIT University and CSIRO has designed and fabricated a micro-nano copper structure and demonstrated its exceptional...
Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) is one of the most serious infectious disease concerns worldwide. In 2019, the Centers for Disease Control...
A team of researchers at the University of Minnesota Twin Cities has pinpointed compounds that help explain Baltic amber’s therapeutic effects and that...
The new biofilm-specific vaccine, developed by researchers from the University of Maryland-Baltimore, Northern Arizona University and the University of...
Human breast milk contains many known antimicrobial and immunomodulatory molecules, including immunoglobulins, antimicrobial peptides, and fatty acids....
In a new study published this month in the Journal of Medical Entomology, researchers from Aston University collected and analyzed 19,937 flying insects...
A team of scientists at the University of California San Diego has developed oral antivirulence vaccines powered by self-propelling micromotors that target...
A team of researchers from Massachusetts Institute of Technology has developed a novel approach for eradicating methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus...
Individuals have wide-ranging physiological responses to the same species of pathogen. Researchers have demonstrated that different strains of a given...
Ajoene, an active sulfurous compound found in garlic, is able to destroy important components in the communication systems of Staphylococcus aureus and...
According to a new study published in the journal Genome Biology, methicillin use was not the original driving factor in the evolution of methicillin-resistant...
A team of researchers at the College of Science at George Mason University has detected 48 antimicrobial peptides in the blood plasma of Komodo dragons...
