Combating Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria Biopharmaceutical Accelerator (CARB-X) will award a seed grant of $610,000 to Justus Liebig University Giessen (JLU) to support the definition of a lead ...

Researchers at the University of Waterloo say they've made a breakthrough in introducing a new trait into bacteria found in wastewater, giving them the ability to break down microplastics.

If your teeth have ever felt fuzzy after skipping a brushing, you’ve encountered biofilm—a slimy bacterial layer that clings to surfaces. In medical settings, biofilms make infections harder to treat ...

Feeding your good gut bacteria through fiber in diet may boost body against infections Date: January 10, 2025 Source: University of Cambridge Summary: A new study has found that the composition of ...

So he located all the relevant papers on a bacterial species that his laboratory studies — an organism that causes tooth decay called Streptococcus sobrinus — but discovered that he’d ...

BIGSdb is software designed to store and analyse sequence data for bacterial isolates. Any number of sequences can be linked to isolate ... with alleles assigned by reference to sequence definition ...

Blood culture: A blood culture may be drawn to determine which type of virus or bacteria is causing infection. If you are experiencing a fever when your white blood cell count is low, known as febrile ...