Wollongong-based online news outlet covering Australia and beyond. If you have anything newsworthy - a story, video or picture to share with us, please email us. Onion is one of the most important vegetable crops in China, yet its yields and…
| Newswise Newswise Alternative found to facilitate the identification of highly similar bacteria An EHU study demonstrates that single-copy genes can be used as markers for distinguishing between bacteria in the same family Newswise — The final-year project carried out by Alexandra…
A company called Radical Numerics says it has given a human patient a cocktail of AI-designed viruses to fight an antibiotic-resistant bacterial infection. TechRadar framed the story with a pointed headline: let’s see how that turns out. That caution fits…
Spread the loveImagine a tiny, invisible helper, quietly working within you, extending your years and bolstering your health. It sounds like something out of science fiction, doesn’t it? Yet, recent discoveries are pushing this notion closer to reality, revealing the…
The findings, published Oct. 29 in Nature Microbiology, are a major milestone for the field of virology and redefine picobirnaviruses as only the third known family of bacteria-infecting RNA viruses ever discovered. "This discovery changes our understanding of the gut ecosystem,…
Wollongong-based online news outlet covering Australia and beyond. If you have anything newsworthy - a story, video or picture to share with us, please email us. Disseminated infection with Talaromyces marneffei can involve several organs, yet most molecular studies still examine…
EurekAlert! Red crown rot of soybean, caused by the fungus Calonectria ilicicola, may appear first as a reddish stem on affected plants. The disease has been spreading throughout Illinois and the Midwest since 2018 and can cause up to 60% yield losses.
Wollongong-based online news outlet covering Australia and beyond. If you have anything newsworthy - a story, video or picture to share with us, please email us. Megan Baldridge, MD, PhD, a professor of medicine at WashU Medicine, has received a four-year…
Now, a team of MIT researchers in the Chisholm lab has found that picture is incomplete. In an open-access study published in Nature Communications, they demonstrate Prochlorococcus can also form biofilms, sticky communities of cells attached to surfaces. The finding…
NTU scientists are pioneering strategies to stay one step ahead of resistant bacteria. One NTU research team from NTU's School of Biological Sciences developed a compound that inhibits an enzyme crucial for energy generation in Mycobacterium abscessus. Collaborating with the…
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