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A soil bacterium unmasks a human enzyme

Life, as we know it, exists thanks to membranes. As active functional barriers between a living cell and its environment, and between compartments within the cell, membranes ensure selective entry and exit of substances, energy generation, and the sending, receiving, and processing of signals essential... click to read more

  • S. Padmanabhan | Professor at Instituto de Química Física “Rocasolano” (CSIC), Madrid, Spain
  • Montserrat Elías-Arnanz | Professor at Department of Genetics, Universidad de Murcia, Murcia, Spain
Views 3837
Reading time 3.5 min
published on Sep 3, 2020
Producing next-gen polymers out of antimicrobial-resistant superbugs

Bacteria survive in an array of environments, so they are constantly exposed to a wide variety of toxic molecules. To be able to survive in different environments, bacterial cells must be able to actively protect themselves from toxins. Often they do this by breaking down... click to read more

  • Varsha Naidu | PhD student at Department of Molecular Sciences, Macquarie University, Australia
  • Karl Hassan | Senior Lecturer at Department of Molecular Sciences, Macquarie University, Australia; School of Environmental and Life Sciences, University of Newcastle, Australia
  • Ian Paulsen | Professor at Department of Molecular Sciences, Macquarie University, Australia
Views 4948
Reading time 3.5 min
published on May 27, 2020
What our blood can tell us about the bugs in our gut

We share an intimate mutual relationship with the microbes in our gut, which we call gut microbiome. It helps us digest and absorb nutrients from our food, and also support our immune system to develop and function properly. Despite considerable progress in our understanding of... click to read more

  • Noa Rappaport | Research Scientist at Institute for Systems Biology, Seattle, WA, USA
  • Tomasz Wilmanski | Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Institute for Systems Biology, Seattle, WA, USA
Views 5691
Reading time 3.5 min
published on Feb 26, 2020
Antibiotic-resistant bacteria in East and West London public settings

The discovery of antibiotics made many bacterial infections easily curable. However, today the world is facing a 'post-antibiotic era' crisis as bacteria are rapidly evolving new ways to resist antibiotics. Yearly, 700, 000 deaths are caused by bacterial infections that are untreatable with currently available... click to read more

  • Rory Cave | PhD student at University of East London, School of Health, Sport and Bioscience, Water Lane, London, UK
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Reading time 3.5 min
published on Feb 21, 2020
Gut microbes transform the food and the drugs we ingest

Microbes in the human gut play essential roles in maintaining human health. Gut microbes carry out many of these roles using a large toolkit of enzymes that can metabolize and transform larger, complex compounds into smaller compounds. Microbial enzymes breakdown many compounds from the human... click to read more

  • Leah Guthrie | Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York, United States; Stanford University, Stanford, United States
Views 4967
Reading time 3.5 min
published on Jan 30, 2020