Contamination is one of the main roadblocks to successful cell culture. This article explores the different types of ...

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 usual method for staining bacterial and yeast spores requires three operations: the staining of both spores and vegetative cells by applying heat to the slide bearing the dye; the removal of ...

1 Laboratory of Infectious Diseases and Vaccine, West China Hospital, West China School of Medicine, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China 2 Department of Healthcare Intelligence, University of North ...

“Microplastics are like rafts — a bacteria on its own might not be able to swim down a river, but riding in its biofilm on a tiny bit of plastic it can be disseminated into many different ...

Urinary tract infections (UTIs) are the most common outpatient infections. Obtaining the concentration of live pathogens in the sample is crucial for the treatment. Still, the enumeration depends on ...

This important study reveals that disrupting fatty acid metabolism in macrophages significantly restricts the growth of Mycobacterium tuberculosis, showing that impaired lipid processing triggers ...

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Uropathogenic E. coli (UPEC), which cause urinary tract infections (UTI), utilize type 1 pili, a chaperone usher pathway (CUP) pilus, to cause UTI and colonize the gut. The pilus rod, comprised of ...