Whether in the human body or on surfaces, bacteria protect themselves from outside attackers using biofilms. Physicist Eleonora Secchi is researching how these slime-like protective films are formed, ...

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In a recent study published in The Lancet, researchers presented comprehensive global estimates of the mortality burden related to 33 species or genera of bacterial pathogenic organisms causing 11 ...

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A 5500-year-old genome recovered from human skeletal remains in Colombia may give insights into the early evolution of ...

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, ...

Light is a fundamental signal affecting every form of life. Cycles of light and dark help set the biological clocks in ...

Scientists from the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI), the University of Liverpool, the University of Edinburgh and elsewhere have traced how diverse strains of a common pathogenic ...

Food poisoning is never a fun experience. Sometimes, if you’re lucky, you’ll bite into something bad and realize soon enough ...

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Gram-positive bacteria have thick cell walls. A Gram stain test, which involves a chemical dye, stains the bacterium’s cell wall purple. On the other hand, gram-negative bacteria stain pink instead.