In 1988, I was asked to summarize a symposium on the then relatively new field of microbial pathogenesis and to comment on the contributions of molecular biology and genetics to the study of bacterial ...

A collaborative team led by researchers from Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health (GOSH), London and including researchers from the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at ...

Molecular piracy and the mobilization of Staphylococcus aureus pathogenicity islands Staphylococcus aureus is an opportunistic pathogen that can cause serious local and systemic infections in humans ...

Panel A shows a cumulative plot of the number of genome projects — involving microbial (bacterial and archaeal), eukaryotic, and viral genomes — and metagenome projects, according to the release year ...

Researchers from the Disruptive & Sustainable Technologies for Agricultural Precision (DiSTAP) Interdisciplinary Research Group (IRG) of Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology (SMART), MIT ...

Studying bacterial effectors that interact with glycosylated players of the human immune system not only leads to a better understanding of the infection process, but it may also lead to applications ...

The transmission of infectious diseases via contaminated water continues to be a risk to public health in the United States and throughout the rest of the. world. Source and finished drinking waters ...

Detailed methods on how to perform research on SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, including procedures that effectively inactivate the virus to enable safe study of infected cells have been ...

Scientists have uncovered an unexpected microbial relationship that could help explain differences in the severity of a major ...

Glycosylation is a common post-translational protein modification and many key proteins of the immune system are glycosylated. As the true experts of our immune system, pathogenic bacteria produce ...