Infectious microbes have evolved sophisticated means to invade host cells, outwit the body’s defenses and cause disease. While researchers have tried to puzzle out the complicated interactions between ...

Integrating metagenomics and bioinformatics enhances food safety, enabling early detection of microbial risks and supporting ...

Prof. Kabiru Akinyemi of the Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Science, Lagos State University(LASU) has sought the creation of a bacterial culture repository in the Microbiology Laboratory at ...

An estimated 1 trillion species of microorganisms reside on Earth, yet scientists have been able to study less than two percent of them. Because many microorganisms cannot be cultivated in ...

For a long time, the formation, change, and maintenance mechanisms of microbial communities induced by microgravity have only been studied to a limited extent in the International Space Station, ...

Engineers at Rice University have developed a dual-bacterial system that converts chemical signals directly ...

Researchers have developed a new antibiotic that reduced or eliminated drug-resistant bacterial infections in mouse models of acute pneumonia and sepsis while sparing healthy microbes in the mouse gut ...

Scientists assess bacterial growth trajectories to better predict infectious capacity and the conditions that aid proliferation. This article explores the key factors that influence bacterial ...