Researchers elucidate how a first heart attack sets the stage for later heart trouble by boosting inflammatory cell development.
Researchers elucidate how a first heart attack sets the stage for later heart trouble by boosting inflammatory cell development.
Medical devices coated with selenium nanoparticles reduce the growth of a deadly hospital-borne infection.
Some of the interesting stories researchers were discussing at this year’s American Society of Microbiology meeting in San Francisco.
Grasshoppers in fear of predation die with less nitrogen in their bodies than unstressed grasshoppers, which can affect soil ecology.
Researchers find a slew of new fungal species inhabiting the human gut, and suggest a link to an inflammatory bowel disease.
The beaches around the Gulf of Mexico harbor different nematodes, protists and fungi now than they did before the Deepwater Horizon disaster in April 2010.
New PCR assay can detect more than 40 strains of H5N1 in a single go.
EDITOR'S CHOICE IN MICROBIOLOGY The paper S. Alsford et al., “High-throughput decoding of antitrypanosomal drug efficacy and resistance,” Nature, 482:232-36, 2012. The finding Trypanosoma brucei, the single-cell protozoan that causes the tropical
Out with toothpicks and pipettors; in with automation.
Exposure to an environmental toxin can affect future generations’ ability to handle stressful conditions.