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Researchers at the Center for Life Sciences at the Paul Scherrer Institute PSI have for the first time identified structural ...

However, if the dose is too high, the use of Botox can be fatal due to paralysis of the respiratory muscles. This can happen as a result of bacterial meat poisoning and is called botulism. To make the ...

Nanotube bridge networks grow between the most abundant photosynthetic bacteria in the oceans, suggesting that the world is ...

Rapidly spreading, harrowing and potentially lethal, a necrotizing soft tissue infection — so-called flesh-eating disease — ...

This article explores the transformative potential and challenges of single cell omics in advancing our understanding of ...

New research reveals that bacteria form species and maintain cohesion through frequent DNA exchange within species. This process, homologous recombination, reinforces distinct species boundaries and ...

But the high case counts in this outbreak were a “stark warning," he said. TB is caused by bacteria that lives in the people’s lungs and spreads through the air when they talk, cough or sing. It is ...

Microbe-derived indoles modulate anxiety and neuronal excitability in the amygdala of germ-free (GF) male mice. These findings demonstrate a molecular mechanism by which microbes tune anxiety-related ...

Researchers have already put a lot of effort in to characterise these cells by studying their gene expression or structure under a microscope, but in this paper, we have focused on assessing the ...

This phenomenon of one cell living inside another ... and then he saw what he was looking for under the microscope: The bacteria had wiggled their way into the fungal spores to hitchhike to ...