SMBE Journals (Molecular Biology and Evolution and Genome Biology and Evolution)Aug 22 2024 Surprisingly, a large number of mutations occurred at the same site or in the same gene across multiple ...

Pathogens are becoming more and more resistant to antibiotics. With the goal of developing new therapeutic approaches to treat bacterial infections more effectively in the future, researchers at the ...

New research suggests that reducing virulence in drug resistant infections rather than trying to kill bacteria outright may offer an alternative approach to treatment. The study revealed how two ...

The world is still in its seventh cholera pandemic, which has been surging since 2021, and case rates in various countries continue to be high. The disease is usually caused when water or food ...

Scientists at the University of Helsinki have used a screening technology that can test for the antivirulence and antibacterial effect of hundreds of unknown compounds simultaneously, to identify ...

The human oral cavity, which includes cheeks, tongue, palate, gums, and teeth, is a highly diverse ecosystem that harbors more than 700 bacterial species, including cultivable and non-cultivable ...

The unreasonable use of antibiotics has pushed bacteria to develop resistance mechanisms to this type of treatment. This phenomenon, known as antibiotic resistance, is now considered by the WHO as one ...

Bacteria, those tiny, often-misunderstood microorganisms, have just gave up a groundbreaking secret that could transform our approach to combating infections. Bacteria are notorious for banding ...

Antimicrobial resistance represents one of the top 10 global public health threats according to the World Health Organization, and scientists have been scrambling to find new tools to cure the most ...