Infections of drug-resistant superbugs are projected to kill nearly 40 million people over the next 25 years, a global ...

We all need to eat, but what we buy at the supermarket can make us sick if we aren’t careful. “Among all industrialized ...

Plant-Microbe interactions are central to understanding how plants engage in symbiotic, commensal, or antagonistic relationships with microorganisms. These interactions, often occurring in the ...

Scientists have discovered the mechanism by which the bacterial pathogen Shigella flexneri, the causative agent of dysentery, manipulates molecular activity to assure its survival against its host's ...

First used in the 1940s to monitor for polio, wastewater surveillance proved such a powerful disease monitoring tool that the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) established the ...

The researchers estimated that, in 2050, the number of global deaths attributable to antimicrobial resistance could reach 1.9 ...

Researchers at Virginia Tech have discovered how bacteria change molecules in order to infect their host. The mechanism by which the bacterial pathogen Shigella flexneri, the cause of dysentery, ...

In a study led by Sarah Worthan, Ph.D., a postdoctoral researcher in the Behringer Lab at Vanderbilt University, scientists ...

Virginia Tech researchers have learned how bacteria manipulate molecules to infect the host organism. Daniel Capelluto and ...

The filamentous bacterium Corynebacterium matruchotii has a unique reproductive strategy that might allow it to claim territory quickly.

Daniel Capelluto and his research team have discovered the mechanism by which the bacterial pathogen Shigella flexneri, the ...