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Antibiotic resistance represents a critical threat for our health and disease treatment. New discoveries are crucial to develop further medicaments against...
It has been speculated for quite a while whether populations – first of all the human population – can drive themselves to extinction by over-polluting their...
Our tongue is inhabited by billions of microbes. But are they beneficial for us? A new imaging technique reveals that these microbes build organized...
A new synthetic antibiotic may lead the way to develop further strategies against superbugs
Honey bees are essential industrious insects, which pollinate crops and help ensure you have enough food to eat. But their health is threatened by viruses and...
Some researchers think that fossilized dinosaur bones can preserve ancient proteins and other soft tissues. Our recent work using a variety of methods failed...
What constitutes a human body? What is it that makes your body, your own? With our research, we begin to break down the human body to investigate the smallest...
Want a long-lasting life? Research shows that there might be an interplay between the microbes in your gut (gut microbiota) and aging. Hence, the answer is:...
C. difficile poses a huge threat to human health, but the friendly bacteria of the gut provide us with a natural resistance to infection. By reprogramming...
Gut microbiota, the bacterial communities that live inside our bodies, more and more appear to be related to our well-being. A major challenge for modern...
