Environmental microbiomes play a pivotal role in shaping the resilience and functioning of ecosystems under increasing anthropogenic pressures. Microbial ...

Antimicrobial nanoparticles are materials with exceptional antimicrobial properties, capable of controlling bacterial, viral, and fungal infections. Thanks to their unique physicochemical attributes, ...

Pathogens can create sticky situations. When microbes invade the body to cause an infection, often one of their first lines ...

A new study has demonstrated that a natural bacterial defense mechanism against invading viruses can be used as a weapon to combat bacterial infection. The finding opens the door to new anti-bacterial ...

The input of fresh organic matter, and the induced priming effect (PE), has long been recognized as a critical regulator of soil organic matter (SOM) ...

A harmful and often deadly substance made by bacteria, a bacterial toxin manipulates host cell functions and disrupts vital cell processes in a living organism. Bacterial toxins hit host organisms ...

A group of researchers from UC Berkeley and the University of Massachusetts Amherst may have opened the doors to new antibiotic drug development by discovering how bacteria control their cell cycle.

Journal of Experimental Botany, Vol. 66, No. 2, Special Issue: Mechanisms of Plant–Insect Interactions (2015), pp. 467-478 (12 pages) Plants and insects have been co-existing for more than 400 million ...

In a new study, researchers looked to identify unique biomarkers and shared microbial mechanisms among different autoimmune diseases and found that the gut microbiome plays a critical role. Systemic ...

Last fall, more than 100 people in 14 states got sick after eating at McDonald’s. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention traced the outbreak to raw onions on the quarter-pounder hamburger, ...