Micro decisions can have macro consequences. A soft matter physicist reveals how interactions within simple cellular ...

We tested major organs (kidney, liver, lung) and found CLP-induced systemic infection likely caused bacterial spread. Blood agar culture showed high bacterial levels in CLP group organs compared to ...

Peer ReviewDownload a summary of the editorial decision process including editorial decision letters, reviewer comments and author responses to feedback. Saccharin has been part of the human diet for ...

The machine uses sound waves to shoot precisely 2.5 nanoliter droplets up onto an inverted agar plate, creating a paint-by-numbers ... She has a background in microbiology. Her science communication ...

teaches undergraduate students introductory biology and advanced microbiology, while conducting her own research on Staphylococcus aureus physiology. But when the students go home, Grosser gets out ...

In the next steps, the quantitative culturing of serial dilutions of obtained suspension was performed on the appropriate agar plates (Müller-Hinton agar for bacteria and Sabouraud agar for the yeast ...

The structures of complex polyketide natural products, such as erythromycin, are programmed by multifunctional polyketide synthases (PKSs) that contain modular arrangements of functional domains. The ...

The paper addresses an important unresolved mechanism of antibiotic resistance caused by a RNA-modifying enzyme Cfr, a protein that confers resistance to multiple ribosome-targeting antibiotics due to ...

Figure 1 Overview of patient enrollment workflow. The samples were sent for culture and smear tests (culture medium: bacteria: blood agar plates/chocolate agar plates/MacConkey agar; fungi: Sabouraud ...