Microbiologie

Fighting back antibiotic resistance: a new hope from the soil

Antibiotic resistance represents a critical threat for our health and disease treatment. New discoveries are crucial to develop further medicaments against...

Collateral damage: antibiotics disrupt the balance in the gut

Adaptation au froid : les bacteries intestinales peuvent faire la différence

Des alliés invisibles pour une croissance saine

The cutting EDGE: Bringing genomics to everyone

Red in Tooth and Claw: another weapon against antibiotic resistance

A new synthetic antibiotic may lead the way to develop further strategies against superbugs

How a fungus causes the collapse of salamander populations

Fire salamanders in Europe are threatened by a seemingly relentless pathogen. How will salamanders cope with this aggressive fungus?

Les microbes intestinaux, un nouveau traitement anti-vieillissement ?

Vous voulez vivre longtemps? La recherche montre qu'il pourrait y avoir un lien entre les microbes présent dans votre intestin (votre microbiote intestinal) et...

Études des microbes internes: distinguer la maladie du traitement

Il est de plus en plus clair que notre microbiote intestinal joue un rôle dans notre bien-être. Un défi majeur pour la médecine moderne, en particulier en ce...

The unexpected partner(s): a billion viruses

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...

Killing C. difficile with targeted strikes

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...

Discovery of high-order drug synergies – from impossible to dirt cheap

Imagine that a super-computer integrated multitudes of biological data and predicted that a certain 10-way drug combination will have synergy. Traditional...