Microbiology & Virology

1+ hour, 56+ min ago   (546+ words) 2026 EPFL/Laure Le Blanc - CC-BY-SA 4.0 Some bacteria can sense when they bump into each other and use these interactions to shape how the group organizes and moves. This discovery reveals a new way microbes explore their environments using physical feedback…...

5+ hour, 52+ min ago   (219+ words) A new analytical method offers researchers a more direct way to measure fungal melanin in soil, potentially improving investigations of a dark pigment associated with soil carbon storage. The study, published on October 11 in Nature Communications, reports a chromatography-based approach…...

4+ hour, 30+ min ago   (409+ words) A green iguana, the world’s smallest otter species and an invasive freshwater jellyfish were among the unexpected discoveries from Curtin University’s BioBlitz at its Perth, Singapore and Malaysia campuses recently. More than 100 students and staff across the three campuses took…...

6+ hour ago   (343+ words) SASKATOON, Sask. — A protein vital to the replication of the virus that causes COVID-19, known as the main protease, or Mpro, makes a good target for antiviral drugs like remdesivir. Now researchers using the Canadian Light Source at the University…...

6+ hour, 27+ min ago   (392+ words) Permafrost, perennially frozen soil found in the Earth's polar regions, is a time capsule, preserving remnants of life from thousands, even millions of years ago. As scientists delve into these icy layers, they are unearthing a wealth of ancient microorganisms,…...

3+ hour, 56+ min ago   (667+ words) Two strains of the beneficial fungus Trichoderma harzianum reduced red pepper Phytophthora blight incidence by 90.9 percent while promoting plant growth by boosting antioxidant enzyme activity and reshaping the rhizosphere microbiome....

16+ hour, 54+ min ago   (1067+ words) Gut bacteria may have accompanied humans for thousands of years, but many species are missing from industrialized populations. Some types of bacteria living in the human gut may have accompanied our ancestors for tens of thousands of years. As people…...

10+ hour, 6+ min ago   (648+ words) Researchers built a simplified synthetic bacterial community from the rhizosphere of a salt-tolerant plant and showed it boosts rice growth and yield under salt-alkali stress....

10+ hour, 1+ min ago   (656+ words) A new mouse study shows that non-viable probiotic cells, or paraprobiotics, can suppress bacterial virulence factors and shift infected burn wounds from destructive inflammation toward tissue repair....

12+ hour, 55+ min ago   (644+ words) A two-center study found that a machine-learning model built from 13 multiparametric brain MRI features can distinguish moderate-to-severe intestinal fibrosis in Crohn's disease patients with strong discrimination, suggesting the gut-brain axis leaves measurable neural fingerprints of bowel scarring....