Antibiotic-resistant bacteria is a serious public health threat. Understanding the biology of these bacteria--such as how they synthesise their protective capsules--is essential for developing new ...

In Estonia, many people learned a lesson from ethnomedicine as children: that placing a plantain leaf on a scraped knee would ...

Since it contains a high water content and vital nutrients, it becomes an easy target for microbial growth. Synthetic ...

Researchers have demonstrated a technique for successfully encapsulating bacteria that can then be stored and applied to plants to improve plant growth and protect against pests and pathogens. The ...

Antibiotic-resistant bacteria are a serious public health threat. Understanding the biology of these bacteria—such as how ...

Day is observed on March 24 each year to raise awareness about the global TB epidemic and the efforts to eliminate it.

Over the years, as more and more sun tea recipes have popped up across the Internet, so have warnings about its potential ...

Scientists have discovered that the enzyme BbLDH is crucial for the survival and infectivity of the Lyme disease bacterium ...

Every time you take a sip from your water bottle, you are depositing bacteria inside and over the course of a day these can ...

Fairburn explains that in the absence of an active anti-phage defense, viral infections inhibit bacterial growth and cause a clear zone on the bacterial plate. Through these experiments ...

Cough syrups can carry an increased risk of bacterial growth once opened. Dr Grant said: “Once opened, cough syrups can last ...