The emerging infectious bacterium Escherichia albertii has caused outbreaks of severe food poisoning and hospitalized people ...

A consortium of researchers with multidisciplinary skills, coordinated by INRAE and including the CNRS, the Université Paris-Saclay and Inserm, has identified a molecule capable of "disarming" ...

Aeron Tynes Hammack, a physicist by training and currently interim facility director of the Nanofabrication Facility at 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 ...

Antibiotic resistance is a major concern, particularly for immunocompromised patients, who are at greater risk of serious infections. Microbiota composition can help prevent pathogenic bacteria from ...

Light is a universal stimulus that influences all living things. Cycles of light and dark help set the biological clocks for organisms ranging from single-celled bacteria to human beings. Some ...

A genomic test developed at UC San Francisco to rapidly detect almost any kind of pathogen – virus, bacteria, fungus or parasite – has proved successful after a decade of use. The test has the ...

It has been a year ago since bacteria from war-wounded at hospitals in Ukraine were analyzed. The study showed that some of the bacteria types had total resistance to antibiotics. Now, the same ...

Biofilms are multicellular aggregates of microorganisms that adhere to biotic or abiotic surfaces and become encased within a self-produced extracellular matrix. In human-pathogenic bacteria such as ...

Your vaginal microbiome affects fertility, infection risk, and comfort. At-home testing reveals your full microbial balance ...