While the ability to degrade plastics might seem beneficial, it poses a threat to the integrity of medical devices and increases the risk of infections.
Bacteria
Researchers found E. coli can perform extracellular anaerobic respiration, growing without carbon energy sources.
How exploiting bacterial fitness costs can help us find a way to tackle resistance in bacteria and help us use the existing drugs more effectively.
How a pesky microbe’s infectiousness comes from exploiting the body’s immune system to gain entry into host cells.
Wolbachia infection enabled host beetles to adjust male egg size in response to stressful environments.
Researchers investigate how some bacteria fight back against one of their predators: Amoebas.
CRISPR-Cas9, a powerful gene-editing tool, protects probiotics from antibiotic resistance and presents a promising strategy to combat bacterial infections
The respiratory microbiota may play a key role in regulating immune responses against influenza infections
A tiny gut microbe that loves eating sugar might help us prevent obesity. Let’s find more about our tiny sugar tooth.
Researchers develop a new method in mice to reduce appetite using engineered probiotic bacteria to secrete appetite-regulating hormones.
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