Colorectal cancer is on the rise among young adults. An international research effort led by UC San Diego bioengineers has uncovered that DNA mutations arising during early childhood from a bacterial ...

A new, non-invasive breath test has emerged as a potential breakthrough for rapidly diagnosing bacterial infections and ...

Their role is to fight off bacteria and viruses that enter the body through the nose and mouth. In this article, we outline the best home treatments and over-the-counter (OTC) medications for ...

Kidney infections often start in the lower urinary tract but spread to the kidneys. Occasionally, bacteria from other body parts reach the kidneys through the bloodstream. A high number of ...

Juvenile myositis (JM) affects those under the age of 18 years. JM is known for causing muscle inflammation and skin rashes. These symptoms are the result of ongoing inflammation and swelling of the ...

There are many ways of classifying bacteria. One method is based on the cell membrane. In 1884, a bacteriologist named Christian Gram created a test that could determine if a bacterium had a thick ...

Researchers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst have discovered rabbit ticks in Maine that carry a new strain of bacteria that can cause life-threatening spotted fever infections in humans ...

One way is to engineer multi-enzyme complexes that mimic the bacterial cellulosomal system, known to increase degradation efficiency up to 50-fold when compared to freely-secreted enzymes. However, ...

Urinary tract infections (UTIs) are bacterial infections of the urinary tract. The most common type of UTI is cystitis which occurs in the lower portion of the urinary tract when bacteria enter the ...

Now, researchers have developed a building material made of mycelium—the tubular, branching filaments found in most fungi—and bacteria cells. As detailed in a study published last week in the ...

4c09111. Table 1, comparison of multiple enzyme activities in different tissues under heatwaves and bacterial infection stress (PDF) Table 2, comparison of multiple genes in different tissues under ...