New drug class offers potential new treatment for lethal bacteria
A new class of drugs has shown promise for treating the bacteria that cause legionnaires' disease, a potentially fatal lung infection.
Mar 7, 2016
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A new class of drugs has shown promise for treating the bacteria that cause legionnaires' disease, a potentially fatal lung infection.
Mar 7, 2016
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University of Tsukuba-based scientists show the importance of dying epithelial cells for controlling the size of a specific population of immune cells at barrier surfaces in the body; finding could lead to targeted therapy ...
Feb 16, 2016
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Alcohol itself can directly damage liver cells. Now researchers at University of California, San Diego School of Medicine report evidence that alcohol is also harmful to the liver for a second reason—it allows gut bacteria ...
Feb 10, 2016
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Last week, a not-yet-accepted-for-publication paper challenged the long-held view that bacterial cells outnumber human cells in a body 10 to 1. As "rewriting the textbooks" fueled media attention, I took a look, because I ...
Jan 18, 2016
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Our skin is covered in millions of bacteria and most of them help keep us healthy. However, for patients with lymphoma, it may be a rather different story, as new research from the University of Copenhagen shows that toxins ...
Jan 6, 2016
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Microbiota—the trillions of bacteria that co-exist in the body—regulate the ability of lung dendritic cells to generate immune responses, according to a study led by researchers from the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount ...
Jan 5, 2016
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Vitamins are good for our health, but what if we could use vitamins to treat infections as well?
Jan 4, 2016
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A new joint International Dairy Federation (IDF)/International Organization for Standardization (ISO) Standard (ISO 19344|IDF 232) has just been released to provide a method for the quantification of lactic acid bacteria ...
Dec 22, 2015
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Don't have room for dessert? The bacteria in your gut may be telling you something. Twenty minutes after a meal, gut microbes produce proteins that can suppress food intake in animals, reports a study published November 24 ...
Nov 24, 2015
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To a microbe, the human body is a vast environment, full of resources and opportunities, dangers and threats. In the world of bacteria, it's thrive or fail to survive. Evolve or go extinct.
Nov 24, 2015
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