Evolution in a test tube: These bacteria survive on deadly copper surfaces The descendants of regular wild-type bacteria can evolve to survive for a long time on metallic copper surfaces that would usually kill them […]
Gut Bacteria May Impact Severity Of COVID-19 Infections The trillions of microorganisms that live in your gut might play a role in how well you cope with COVID-19, as per a new study. Equally, gut […]
Bacteria can tell the time Humans have them, so do other animals and plants. Now research reveals that bacteria too have internal clocks that align with the 24-hour cycle of life on Earth. The research […]
Researchers identify the physical mechanism that can kill bacteria with gold nanoparticles Finding alternatives to antibiotics is one of the biggest challenges facing the research community. Bacteria are increasingly resistant to these drugs, and this […]
New treatment for tuberculosis: disease-causing bacteria will be starved The infectious disease Tuberculosis (TB) is one of the leading causes of death worldwide. While rates of TB in Canada have remained relatively static since the […]
Animals’ magnetic ‘sixth’ sense may come from bacteria, new paper suggests A University of Central Florida researcher is co-author of a new paper that may help answer why some animals have a magnetic ‘sixth’ sense, […]