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Gene Discovery Reveals Importance of Eating Your Greens
March 4, 2013 — Eating your greens may be even more important that previously thought, with the discovery that an immune cell population essential for intestinal health could be controlled by leafy greens in your ... > full story -
Wolf in Sheep's Clothing: Uncovering How Deadly Bacteria Trick the Immune System
February 28, 2013 — A new study demonstrates how bacteria can pretend to be a virus and trick the immune system into sending out the wrong type of defense. Such manipulation sheds light on how the flu may make us more ... > full story -
How Did Early Primordial Cells Evolve?
February 28, 2013 — New research on bacteria examines how primordial cells could have evolved without protein machinery or cell walls. While the vast majority of bacteria have cell walls, many bacteria can switch to a ... > full story -
Toxic Oceans May Have Delayed Spread of Complex Life
February 28, 2013 — A new model suggests that inhospitable hydrodgen-sulfide rich waters could have delayed the spread of complex life forms in ancient oceans. The research considers the composition of the oceans ... > full story -
Strains of Antibiotic-Resistant 'Staph' Bacteria Show Seasonal Preference; Children at Higher Risk in Summer
February 28, 2013 — Strains of potentially deadly, antibiotic-resistant Staphylococcus aureus bacteria show seasonal infection preferences, putting children at greater risk in summer and seniors at greater risk in ... > full story -
Is Nanosilver Toxic?
February 28, 2013 — According to new research with data obtained on two crustacean species, there is apparently no reason to consider silver nanoparticles more dangerous for aquatic ecosystems than silver ... > full story -
Why Some People Get Zits and Others Don't
February 28, 2013 — Researchers have discovered that acne bacteria contain "bad" strains associated with pimples and "good" strains that may protect the skin. The findings could lead to a myriad of new therapies to ... > full story -
Viruses Can Have Immune Systems: A Pirate Phage Commandeers the Immune System of Bacteria
February 27, 2013 — A new study reports that a viral predator of the cholera bacteria has stolen the functional immune system of bacteria and is using it against its bacterial host. This provides the first evidence that ... > full story -
Good Bacteria May Expunge Vancomycin-Resistant Bacteria from Your Gut
February 27, 2013 — Too much antibiotic can decimate the normal intestinal microbiota, which may never recover its former diversity. That, in turn, renders the GI tract vulnerable to being colonized by pathogens. Now ... > full story -
Resurrection of 3-Billion-Year-Old Antibiotic-Resistance Proteins
February 27, 2013 — Scientists are reporting "laboratory resurrections" of several 2-3-billion-year-old proteins that are ancient ancestors of the enzymes that enable today's antibiotic-resistant bacteria to shrug off ... > full story
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