Bacteria

  • Discovery of Bacteria Survival Trick Opens Door to New Kinds of Therapeutics
    Learning the secrets of how pathogenic bacteria manage to survive in the body of an animal or human may carry great implications for future development of new and better medical treatments. Now, scientists at the University of Maryland School of Dentistry have unraveled one ...More
    June 11, 2012
    Posted in News
  • Long-Ignored Enzyme is Key to Killing Infectious Bacteria
    New research shows that an enzyme that has long been considered relatively useless to the immune response instead has an important role in setting up immune cells to kill infection-causing bacteria. Ohio State University scientists have determined that this enzyme, called ...More
    June 11, 2012
    Posted in News
  • Infectious Disease May Have Shaped Human Origins
    Roughly 100,000 years ago, human evolution reached a mysterious bottleneck: Our ancestors had been reduced to perhaps 5,000 to 10,000 individuals living in Africa. In time, “behaviorally modern” humans would emerge from this population, expanding dramatically in both number ...More
    June 5, 2012
    Posted in News
  • Scientists Work Together to Achieve Milestone Against Deadly Diseases
    Investigators at the Center for Structural Genomics of Infectious Diseases (CSGID) and the Seattle Structural Genomics Center for Infectious Disease (SSGCID) announced today that they reached a significant milestone by determining 1,000 protein structures from infectious ...More
    June 5, 2012
    Posted in News
  • Fighting Bacteria's Strength in Numbers
    Scientists at the University of Nottingham have opened the way for more accurate research into new ways to fight dangerous bacterial infections by proving a long-held theory about how bacteria communicate with each other. Researchers in the University’s School of Molecular ...More
    May 17, 2012
    Posted in News
  • Gut-Throat Competition: Surprising Research on Gut Bacteria
    From tiny villages in developing nations to suburban kitchens in the United States, dangerous strains of E. coli bacteria sicken millions of people each year – and kill untold numbers of children. Now, new research from the University of Michigan Health System gives ...More
    May 10, 2012
    Posted in News
  • Gut Flora Affects Maturation of B Cells in Infants
    Infants whose gut is colonized by E. coli bacteria early in life have a higher number of memory B cells in their blood, reveals a study of infants carried out at the Sahlgrenska Academy at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden. The bacteria in our gut outnumber the cells in ...More
    May 7, 2012
    Posted in News
  • Engineers Design Nanoparticles that Deliver High Doses of Antibiotics Directly to Bacteria
    Over the past several decades, scientists have faced challenges in developing new antibiotics even as bacteria have become increasingly resistant to existing drugs. One strategy that might combat such resistance would be to overwhelm bacterial defenses by using highly ...More
    May 4, 2012
    Posted in News
  • Bacteria Discovery Could Lead to Antibiotics Alternatives
    Scientists have discovered an Achilles heel within our cells that bacteria are able to exploit to cause and spread infection. The researchers say their findings could lead to the development of new anti-infective drugs as alternatives to antibiotics whose overuse has led to ...More
    May 4, 2012
    Posted in News
  • Armpits, Belly Buttons and Chronic Wounds: The ABCs of Our Body Bacteria
    Minutes after you were born, bacteria moved in. Since then, their populations have exploded, diversified and spread—on your skin and eyes and in your mouth and gut, not to mention other places. These bacterial cells now far outnumber your own cells. Some bacteria on your ...More
    April 30, 2012
    Posted in News
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