PETase: The Earth’s Spring Clean?
Callum Maxwell explores the issue of plastic waste and the biological tools that could help to handle it.
Tagged: Bacteria
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.
What Makes an Outbreak?
How do bacteria we consider household names cause such widespread disease and panic?
Mind Controlling Microbes
Raeesah Maqsood discusses the gut-brain axis and how microbiota may play a crucial role in the development of schizophrenia.
Slaying Bacteria with Their Own Sword
Bringing the fight to antibiotic resistance with the next generation of antibacterial weapons.
Weapons of tumour mass destruction: a role for bacteria in the war on cancer
Síle Johnson goes behind enemy lines to investigate the potential of bacteria as an alternative therapy in cancer treatment.
