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In an exciting new discovery, scientists have found that our own bodies might hold the key to fighting dangerous bacteria. A ...
A team of scientists led by the UAB has identified a new type of antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) found in human proteins that ...
Researchers say they have discovered bacteria that breathe electricity instead of oxygen, spurring new ideas for renewable ...
Bacterial cells are about a thousand times smaller than human cells but they are far more numerous. Even though only about 1 per cent of body weight is due to the bacteria living on or inside the ...
Obelisks have been identified in bacteria residing in various parts of the human body, including the mouth and intestinal ...
coli (pictured), use chemicals to sense the world around them and navigate inside the body ... that surround them to move in the human body. Bacteria also stay alive in the body by consuming ...
Pseudomonas aeruginosa (small rod-shaped bacteria) swarms toward and around a neighboring Cryptococcus neoformans (round yeast) colony. The thin fluid halo surrounding the yeast enables the bacteria ...
A decade ago, biologists Jennifer Doudna and Emmanuelle Charpentier published a landmark paper describing a natural immune system found in bacteria ... directly inside the human body,” she ...
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In the body, this unsweetening makes the ... bacteria to strip sugars from antibodies in the gut. Human genetics, the other bacteria inside the gut, and diet may all play a role, Gleeson said.
In 2020, Straussman's team looked at more than 1,500 human tumours across ... to spread to other parts of the body. The researchers found bacteria living inside breast tumour cells that were ...
Scientists estimate that tens of trillions of viruses live inside of us ... In the human body, for example, phages typically don’t exterminate their host bacteria. And bacteria may benefit ...