Endemic and emerging infectious diseases caused by microbial pathogens pose a considerable threat to human and animal health worldwide 1,2,3,4,5. At the molecular level, pathogen evolution ...

Mycobacteria are the world's most deadly bacteria --c ausing infectious diseases including tuberculosis (TB), which alone kills more than one million people each year. New drugs to fight these ...

The development and spread of antibiotic resistance represents one of the greatest threats to global health. To overcome ...

Bacteria have different strategies for protecting themselves. Some bacterial pathogens surround themselves ... leaving the ...

In the fight against bacterial pathogens, researchers are combining vaccination with targeted colonization of the intestine by harmless microorganisms. This approach could potentially mark a turning ...

Researchers have discovered a new antibiotic molecule that targets a broad range of disease-causing bacteria — even ... previously unknown tricks to kill pathogens. They collected soil samples ...

Scientists have solved the 3D structure of EspC, a powerful toxin produced by EPEC, a diarrheal E. coli strain that kills ...

Bioterrorism agents are pathogenic ... attack did not impact the election). As technologies for genetically modifying organisms have advanced and become more accessible, it has become easier and less ...

The issue of intestinal bacteria is a complex one. On the one hand, we are dependent on the microorganisms because they are the ones that digest the food in our intestine. On the other hand, there are ...

Among those bacteria were the biofilm-forming Pseudomonas aeruginosa. Such plaques are normally stable, but when do they break down, clumps can results in blood clots that can cause the patient to ...