Building a Microbial Forest… 14 Cells at a Time
Producing up to 14 cells per division, Corynebacterium matruchotii displays a never-before seen mechanism of multiplication, and happens to be resident on your teeth.
Tagged: Bacteria
Bacteria and the brain: A new insight into mental health
Hazel explores the surprising connection between what lives in your gut and what goes on in your mind.
Antibiotic resistance: how do we get the threat under control?
Perrine gives us a simple explanation of the antibiotic resistance crisis and its current status.
Dining with disease
Dzachary Zainudden delivers an insight into the role of pathogenic germs in paving the way for diseases to spread from plate to people.
PETase: The Earth’s Spring Clean?
Callum Maxwell explores the issue of plastic waste and the biological tools that could help to handle it.
Bacterial Products: The Latest Anti-Ageing Treatment?
For years we have tried to reduce the effects of ageing. Could molecules produced by our commensal bacteria be a new line of therapeutics to combat these effects?
Mind Your Bugs
Cleveland Clinics researchers are the first to explore breast tissue microbiota – revealing a link between a particular bacterial composition and breast cancer.
Proper Precautions
The discovery of a new antibiotic and how it can potentially treat a previously hard to treat STD.
