All The Microbiologist articles in Web Issue – Page 200
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NewsSanitized ready-to-eat salad may contain disease-causing bacteria
A review of research on minimally processed vegetables highlights cases of unsatisfactory microbiological safety and calls for best practice assurance throughout the supply chain.
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NewsNew species of marine bacteria isolated from a deep-sea cold seep
Scientists have isolated a new species of marine bacteria that multiplies by a unique budding mechanism and releases viruses to facilitate nitrogen metabolism.
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NewsSome hosts have an ‘evolutionary addiction’ to their microbiome
Microbes might not actually be helping their hosts; instead, microbe-free hosts might malfunction because they have evolved an addiction to their microbes, says one evolutionary ecologist.
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NewsTargeting malaria parasite’s IncRNAs could halt life cycle progression
A study into mechanisms that regulate gene expression through the different stages of Plasmodium falciparum’s lifecycle could open new avenues for therapeutic strategies aimed at stopping the parasite’s life cycle progression.
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NewsResearch uncovers possible monoclonal antibody treatment for Lassa fever
New research potentially points to an effective treatment for Lassa fever, a dangerous, often fatal disease common to much of West Africa but considered a major threat to global health.
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NewsAttack on Mac1 Covid protein may lead to longer lasting live-attenuated vaccine
Research could hasten development of a new class of vaccines aimed at SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19.
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NewsHistoric red tide event of 2020 fuelled by plankton super swimmers
The swimming ability of dinoflagellates lends them a competitive advantage over other plankton species, contributing to harmful algal blooms.
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NewsDrinking water quality linked to lung infections in people with cystic fibrosis
High levels of some minerals and metals in environmental water supplies may increase the risk of nontuberculous mycobacteria (NTM) pulmonary infections in people with cystic fibrosis, according to a new study.
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NewsEfficient oil-eating bacteria cooperate to maximize dining capacity
Researchers find an oil-degrading bacterium Alcanivorax borkumensis forms biofilms that consume the oil by surrounding and adhering strongly to the oil-water interface.
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NewsFirst defence against devastating ToCSV tomato virus explored
How tomato plants defend themselves against a devastating ‘young’ Southern African virus has now been investigated at a molecular genetics level for the first time.
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NewsPatrolling honey bees expose spread of antimicrobial resistance
Bees could become biomonitors, checking their neighbourhoods to determine how far antimicrobial resistance (AMR) has spread, according to new research.
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NewsWaste colonies yield bacterium with 3 enzymes that may break down polyester
Scientists have enriched expanded polystyrene waste from a beach in Ireland to isolate a bacterium which proved to contain three enzymes that could break down polyester.
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NewsResistant E. coli rises despite drop in ciprofloxacin use
Community circulation of ciprofloxacin-resistant E. coli paradoxically increased after six-year reduction in antibiotic prescriptions.
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FeaturesUnder the microscope: Japanese encephalitis
JEV is one of the leading causes of viral encephalitis globally, widespread across Asia-Pacific and endemic in 24 countries of south and southeast Asia.
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NewsLignocellulose bio-refinery can co-utilize xylose and glucose in yeast
Scientists have developed a lignocellulose bio-refinery platform for value-added chemical overproduction in yeast.
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NewsShell-building strategies could be key in climate models
A scientist investigating how single-celled organisms discovered how to build a ‘shell’ around their single cell says it could help predict how the calcium balance in the oceans will change under the influence of the changing climate.
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NewsCargo system inhibits E.coli biofilms with a fraction of the antibiotic dose
Scientists have designed a bacteria-targeted cargo system that is capable of inhibiting a quinolone resistant Escherichia coli biofilm using much lower levels of antibiotic. The researchers, from Koç University School of Medicine in collaboration with College of Science, Department of Chemistry, encapsulated the antibiotic ciprofloxacin into superparamagnetic iron oxide nanoparticles ...
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NewsResearchers target lifecycle of parasite behind Chagas disease
Researchers are studying the signaling pathway that leads the parasite behind Chagas disease to transform and reproduce.
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NewsSoil microplastics could usher superbugs into food supply
Micro- and nanoplastics in agricultural soil could contribute to antibiotic resistant bacteria with a ready route into our food supply, a new study warns.
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NewsResearchers on cusp of a new vaccine modality breakthrough
Researchers have succeeded in developing a new vaccine modality that is a stable particulate vaccine. The new vaccine modality is at proof-of-concept stage and in early development.