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June 26, 2025

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May 26, 2025 — Researchers uncover a notorious cholera strain that contains sophisticated immune systems to fend off viruses, which potentially helped it to fuel a devastating epidemic across Latin ...

Teens Driving Older Vehicles Have Increased Risk for Fatal Crashes

May 7, 2025 — Researchers reviewed US national fatal crash data (2016-2021) and examined the vehicle age and driver assistance technologies of vehicles driven by teen and middle-aged drivers, and their associations with driver deaths during fatal ...

Precision Medicine Could Be Possible in the Fight Against Antibiotic Resistance

Apr. 3, 2025 — Certain antibiotic-resistant infections could be treated with precision medicine in the future, thanks to a new resource mapping plasmids the ultimate vehicle of rapid bacterial ...

Breaking Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria's Protective Shields Opens Door for Immune System Response

Mar. 24, 2025 — Antibiotic-resistant bacteria is a serious public health threat. Understanding the biology of these bacteria--such as how they synthesise their protective capsules--is essential for developing new ...

The Relationship Between Gut Microbiota, Immunoglobulin A, and Vaccine Efficacy

Mar. 15, 2025 — A study has established the importance of immunoglobulin A, an antibody that is part of the immune system, in generating a response to pneumonia vaccines. Researchers have found that the absence of ...

This Research Is Absolutely Nuts -- For Better Health Care

Feb. 17, 2025 — A nut used in herbal tea has become a hydrogel perfect for a variety of biomedical uses in new research. Scientists created a malva nut hydrogel for medical uses ranging from wound care to ECG readings. The research doesn't rely on the rumored ...

Warding Off Superbugs With a Pinch of Turmeric

Feb. 6, 2025 — The researchers showed that when curcumin is intentionally given to bacteria as food and then activated by light, it can trigger deleterious reactions within these microbes, eventually killing them. This process, they demonstrated, reduces the ...

Phages, Towards a Targeted Alternative to Antibiotics

Nov. 25, 2024 — With the rapid development of antibiotics in the 1930s, phage therapy -- using viruses known as bacteriophages or phages to tackle bacterial infections -- fell into oblivion. But as the current rise in antibiotic resistance is making it increasingly ...

Beneficial Gut Microbe Has Surprising Metabolic Capabilities

Oct. 24, 2024 — Researchers discovered potentially far-reaching effects of a particular gut bacterium that was linked to better growth in Bangladeshi children receiving a therapeutic food designed to nurture healthy gut microbes. A strain of the bacterium harbored ...

Bacterial Vaccine Shows Promise as Cancer Immunotherapy

Oct. 16, 2024 — Researchers have engineered bacteria as personalized cancer vaccines that activate the immune system to specifically seek out and destroy cancer ...

Researchers Identify Antibodies Against Klebsiella Pneumoniae

Oct. 3, 2024 — Research has identified 29 novel antibodies against the bacterium Klebsiella pneumoniae, an important cause of drug-resistant infections. Using genetic and functional approaches, the researchers managed to unravel how these antibodies interact with ...

Climate Change Increases Foodborne Illness Risk from Raw Produce

Aug. 29, 2024 — Salmonella enterica causes disease in 1.2 million people in the U.S. every year. A new study found that Salmonella contamination is enhanced by high humidity and plant ...

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Zinc Deficiency Promotes Acinetobacter Lung Infection, Study Finds

Nov. 15, 2024 — Researchers discovered an unexpected link between zinc deficiency, the pro-inflammatory cytokine interleukin-13 (IL-13), and Acinetobacter baumannii lung infection and demonstrated that blocking ...

Researchers Develop Approach to Accurately Predict Pneumonia Outcomes

Oct. 30, 2024 — Doctors struggle to accurately predict pneumonia patients' prognoses and determine the most effective treatments. Now, by applying a sophisticated machine-learning approach to electronic health ...

Hospital Pneumonia Diagnoses Are Uncertain, Revised More Than Half the Time, Study Finds

Aug. 6, 2024 — An AI-based analysis of over 2 million hospital visits has found that most of the time, a pneumonia diagnosis made in the hospital will change from a ...

Harnessing Big Data Helps Scientists Home in on New Antimicrobials

July 16, 2024 — Researchers have developed a strategy to identify new antimicrobial drugs with therapeutic promise from bacterial datasets, providing clues for discovering alternatives to traditional ...

Mobile Phone Data Helps Track Pathogen Spread and Evolution of Superbugs

July 3, 2024 — Combining genomic data and human travel patterns over a 14-year period in South Africa reveals key insights into the spread, evolution and resistance patterns of a major bacterium behind pneumonia ...

The Scary, Yet Promising World of Phages, the Pathogen's Pathogen

June 13, 2024 — Researchers are unlocking the mystery of how bacteria harness viruses to wipe out the competition. The answers could help spur the development of alternatives to ...

New Antibiotic Kills Pathogenic Bacteria, Spares Healthy Gut Microbes

May 29, 2024 — Researchers have developed a new antibiotic that reduced or eliminated drug-resistant bacterial infections in mouse models of acute pneumonia and sepsis while sparing healthy microbes in the mouse ...

A Vaccine to Fight Antibiotic Resistance

Apr. 26, 2024 — Researchers have created a new vaccine candidate to treat staph and MRSA ...

Antibiotics Aren't Effective for Most Lower Tract Respiratory Infections

Apr. 16, 2024 — Use of antibiotics provided no measurable impact on the severity or duration of coughs even if a bacterial infection was present, finds a large, prospective study of people who sought treatment in ...

Lives Could Be Saved from Tropical Disease With New Rapid Test

Mar. 14, 2024 — A new test diagnoses patients with melioidosis within hours, rather than days, meaning they can receive the correct antibiotics ...

Possible 'Trojan Horse' Found for Treating Stubborn Bacterial Infections

Mar. 5, 2024 — Bacteria can be tricked into sending death signals to stop the growth of their slimy, protective homes that lead to deadly infections, a new study demonstrates. The discovery could someday be ...

Researchers Develop Molecules for a New Class of Antibiotics That Can Overcome Drug Resistant Bacteria

Feb. 21, 2024 — About a decade ago, researchers began to observe a recurring challenge in their research: Some of the compounds they were developing to harness energy from bacteria were instead killing the microbes. ...

New Approach to Tackling Bacterial Infections Identified

Feb. 6, 2024 — Researchers have identified a new approach to controlling bacterial infections. The team found a way to turn on a vital bacterial defense mechanism to fight and manage bacterial infections. The ...

Bacterial Meningitis Injures One in Three Children for Life

Jan. 19, 2024 — One in three children who suffer from bacterial meningitis live with permanent neurological disabilities due to the ...

Toothbrushing Tied to Lower Rates of Pneumonia Among Hospitalized Patients

Dec. 18, 2023 — Researchers have found an inexpensive tool that may help reduce rates of pneumonia for hospitalized patients -- and it comes with bristles on one end. A new study examined whether daily toothbrushing ...

Bacteria's Mucus Maneuvers: Study Reveals How Snot Facilitates Infection

Dec. 5, 2023 — Sniffles, snorts and blows of runny noses are the hallmarks of cold and flu season -- and that increase in mucus is exactly what bacteria use to mount a coordinated attack on the immune system, ...

Macaque Trials Offer Hope in Pneumonia Vaccine Development

Nov. 28, 2023 — A research team has successfully developed a novel pneumococcal vaccine by combining the team's proprietary mucosal vaccine technology with pneumococcal surface proteins that can cover a wide ...

Macaque Trials Offer Hope in Pneumonia Vaccine Development

Survey Finds Many Americans Are Letting Their Guard Down During Respiratory Illness Season

Nov. 13, 2023 — Despite the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention warning this year will be potentially dangerous for respiratory illnesses, a third of Americans are not concerned about the threat, according to ...

How the Respiratory Tract Microbiome Influences the Severity of Bacterial Pneumonia

Sep. 12, 2023 — Pneumonia is an infection of the lung alveoli caused by bacteria, viruses or fungi. It is one of the leading causes of morbidity and mortality worldwide, representing a clinical and economic burden ...

Newly Engineered Versions of Bacterial Enzyme Reveal How Antibiotics Could Be More Potent

Aug. 30, 2023 — Researchers applied a new technology to generate the full inventory of mutations in the bacterial species Escherichia coli where the antibiotic rifampicin attaches to and disables an essential ...

Enhancing Cancer Therapy Using Functionalized Photosynthetic Bacteria

Aug. 29, 2023 — Selective targeting of cancerous cells poses major clinical challenges during cancer therapy. However, this limitation can be overcome by using bioengineered bacteria with highly optimized chemical ...

New Antibiotic from Microbial 'Dark Matter' Could Be Powerful Weapon Against Superbugs

Aug. 22, 2023 — A new powerful antibiotic, isolated from bacteria that could not be studied before, seems capable of combating harmful bacteria and even multi-resistant 'superbugs'. Named Clovibactin, the ...

Several Vaccines Associated With Reduced Risk of Alzheimer's Disease in Adults 65 and Older

Aug. 16, 2023 — Prior vaccination against tetanus and diphtheria, with or without pertussis (Tdap/Td); herpes zoster (HZ), better known as shingles; and pneumococcus are all associated with a reduced risk for ...

Images of Enzyme in Action Reveal Secrets of Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria

Aug. 14, 2023 — Advanced microscopy techniques give scientists valuable clues for how to fight an enzyme that is leading to a rise in cases of antibiotic-resistant bacterial infections ...

Parasites of Viruses Drive Superbug Evolution

Aug. 4, 2023 — Researchers have discovered a previously unknown mechanism by which bacteria share their genetic material through virus parasites. The insights could help scientists to better understand how bacteria ...

Lupus Flare-Ups Strongly Linked to Specific Bacterial Growth in Gut

June 27, 2023 — Recurrent bouts of systemic lupus erythematosus, marked by the body's immune system attack of its own tissues, closely tracked with measureable upticks in growth in the gut of a certain species ...

Drug Decelerates Bacterial Race to Antibiotic Resistance

June 23, 2023 — Researchers report that, in laboratory cultures and animal models, a drug significantly reduces the ability of bacteria to develop antibiotic resistance, which might prolong antibiotic ...

Previously Unknown Antibiotic Resistance Widespread Among Bacteria

June 5, 2023 — Genes that make bacteria resistant to antibiotics are much more widespread in our environment than was previously realized. A new study shows that bacteria in almost all environments carry resistance ...

Near-Universal T Cell Immunity Towards a Broad Range of Bacteria

Apr. 25, 2023 — Typically T cells of the immune system respond to a specific feature (antigen) of a microbe, thereby generating protective immunity. Scientists have discovered an exception to this rule. Namely, a ...