Microbiology

Gonorrhea Map Shows How Antibiotic Resistance Spreads Across Europe

If you want to understand the spread of antibiotic resistance across Europe, sexually transmitted diseases seem to be a decent barometer. Gonorrhea, caused by the bacterium Neisseria gonorrhoeae, is the second most prevalent bacterial sexually transmitted ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 9 2018 - 3:28pm

New Vaccines Instead Of Antibiotics As Approach To Treating Infectious Diseases

Enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli is a major cause of diarrhea in developing countries, and responsible for at least 300,000 deaths a year, according to the World Health Organization. Effective vaccines have not been developed, so patients infected are trea ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 12 2018 - 10:08am

Endophytes: Study Shows GMO Corn Has No Impact On Good Bacteria

Bt modification in maize does not affect non-target beneficial microorganisms such as endophytes, according to a new study. This debunks some of the more obscure claims made by activists opposed to genetic engineering (suicides in India being the most biza ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 30 2018 - 8:30am

New Molecules Similar To Carbohydrates Can Inhibit Enzymes In Infectious Diseases

New molecules similar to carbohydrates have showed the capacity to inhibit the activity of a specific type of glycoside enzymes- and that means inhibiting infectious diseases. Glycosides are essential enzymes to digest carbohydrates but they are also key p ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 8 2018 - 8:20am

Organic Certification Is Not A Food Safety Standard

When Miles McEvoy became Deputy Administrator of the USDA’s National Organic Program (NOP) he set out to do something in the Obama administration that Science 2.0 long had called for, and Consumers Union had been calling for a decade before us; spot field ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Nov 8 2018 - 10:27am

Black Friday Is The Day Of The Division Bio-Terrorist Attack: Here's How It Could Happen

In March of 2016, a game called "Tom Clancy's The Division" was released. Unlike other "shooter" games such as "Destiny" and "Call of Duty", "The Division" has a compelling science story. (1) And the ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Jan 28 2019 - 5:43pm

Malaria Mosquito Anopheles Stephensi Found In Ethiopia For The First Time

Anopheles stephens i, a malaria disease vector, is normally found in the Middle East, Indian Subcontinent and China. But now it has been found in Ethiopia, where over 68 percent of the population is already at risk for malaria and an average of 2.5 millio ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 16 2019 - 1:52pm

Defining Microbiome Deviancy Down: Now Even Nanoparticles Impact Your Gut?

Though our guts contain a trillion bacteria in various compositions, it's become popular to claim any detectable change is a bad thing. Unless it is to sell yogurt, where no detectable change is regarded as a probiotic good thing. Now even at the nano ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 29 2019 - 12:24pm

Artificial Sweeteners Are Not Harmful For Gut Microbiota, They Are Even Prebiotics

Food is plentiful and affordable, and that has brought an increase in consumption of foods that matched an ancient evolutionary mandate; sweetness. In ancient times, humans knew that sweetness meant more calories and in a world where they often weren' ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Feb 21 2019 - 12:33pm

Update On The Science Race Against Wheat Stem Rust

Scientists continue to gain ground in the race against wheat stem rust, a pathogen that threatens global food security because of its ability to kill wheat. The new chink in nature's armor was discovered in the first rust virulence molecule that whea ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 10 2019 - 9:40am