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Rare rains bring death to microbes of the Mars-Like Atacama Desert
Microbiology

Rare rains bring death to microbes of the Mars-Like Atacama Desert

The Atacama Desert in Northern Chile is the driest and oldest desert on Earth. For this reason, it has been investigated as Mars analog model. We found that,...

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A bacterium with the power of changing the course of Human history
Microbiology

A bacterium with the power of changing the course of Human history

Around 5,000 years ago, different Neolithic populations in Europe started to reduce in size and even disappear. The reasons for this decay are still largely...

4 min read4,848 views
Finding Dracula’s silver bullet: the fight against a bloodthirsty fungus
Microbiology

Finding Dracula’s silver bullet: the fight against a bloodthirsty fungus

That’s correct, the darkness loving, light fearing, blood sucking prince of darkness, Count Dracula was a fungus. In our recent research, we describe that just...

4 min read5,878 views
Virus infection: may the (binding) force be with you?
Microbiology

Virus infection: may the (binding) force be with you?

From touchdown to cell entry, sophisticated microscopy can shed new light into the molecular mechanisms established by the viruses to hijack the cellular...

4 min read4,681 views
Gut bacteria orchestrate the transmission of overweight from mother to babe
Microbiology

Gut bacteria orchestrate the transmission of overweight from mother to babe

Using gene-sequencing methods to identify infant gut bacteria in a large and representative Canadian birth cohort, we investigated birth mode and infant gut...

3 min read5,840 views
New and Improved! A supercharged antibiotic to fight superbugs
Microbiology

New and Improved! A supercharged antibiotic to fight superbugs

New antibiotics are needed to treat infections caused by bacteria that can no longer be killed by current drugs. We have improved an existing antibiotic by...

5 min read5,268 views
Modern stressors of gut microbes
Microbiology

Modern stressors of gut microbes

We previously demonstrated that commonly used food additives can modify the community of micro-organisms that live in our intestine, and by doing so, boost the...

3 min read5,672 views
Drive out the “bad bugs” to prevent colon cancers
Microbiology

Drive out the “bad bugs” to prevent colon cancers

There is a microscopic society living within us. Many of them reside in our gut. In some colon cancers, toxin-producing bacteria invade the mucus and form a...

4 min read4,975 views
Bacteria under stress: cheating to survive
Microbiology

Bacteria under stress: cheating to survive

Social bacteria growing in microbial communities cheat their resistant neighbors and survive antibiotic treatment. Understanding the social lifestyles of...

4 min read5,037 views
Gut bacteria drive yo-yo dieting
Microbiology

Gut bacteria drive yo-yo dieting

Gut bacteria “memory” of previous obesity drives recurrent or “Yo-Yo obesity”: the major pattern of human obesity worldwide. Therapeutically resetting this...

4 min read5,599 views