Industrial fermentation using bacteria, yeast and other microbes to produce specific products has the potential to reduce ...

A new avenue for targeted drug delivery has been proposed by researchers from The Grainger College of Engineering at the ...

A protein called PriC allows DNA replication to proceed in Escherichia coli when the complex that usually initiates this process is compromised.

Since the discovery of penicillin nearly a century ago, antimicrobial resistance (AMR) has become a stealthy, pervasive enemy ...

New global estimates from the 2021 Global Burden of Disease Study reveal a sharp decline in diarrhoeal deaths over three ...

This guide breaks down the most common microbiology short forms, what they mean, and why they matter. Let’s dive into this world of small words with big impact! Short forms make communication faster ...

Nearly a third of all antibiotics that people consume end up in the world’s rivers, a new study finds. This could potentially harm aquatic life and impact human health by promoting drug ...

1 Department of Microbiology, Heersink School of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States 2 Regional Biocontainment BSL-3 Research Laboratory (SEBLAB), ...

According to the study: Asia accounted for approximately 65.2% of global mortality due to short-term PM 2.5 exposure Africa 17.0% Europe 12.1% The Americas 5.6% Oceania 0.1% The mortality burden ...

In their recent Review, Ramos and colleagues1 summarise the evolving landscape of pneumococcal disease and vaccines. However, two crucial issues warrant further discussion. First, many countries ...

where there was rapid funding allowing a wealth of information to be gathered in a very short time about a relatively uniform tsunami of infection in a naïve population. We know a lot about those ...