Microbiology

Fighting back antibiotic resistance: a new hope from the soil

Antibiotic resistance represents a critical threat for our health and disease treatment. New discoveries are crucial to develop further medicaments against...

Collateral damage: antibiotics disrupt the balance in the gut

Cold adaptation: gut bacteria can make the difference

Invisible allies for healthy juvenile growth

The cutting EDGE: Bringing genomics to everyone

Red in Tooth and Claw: another weapon against antibiotic resistance

A new synthetic antibiotic may lead the way to develop further strategies against superbugs

How a fungus causes the collapse of salamander populations

Fire salamanders in Europe are threatened by a seemingly relentless pathogen. How will salamanders cope with this aggressive fungus?

Gut microbes as a novel anti-aging intervention?

Want a long-lasting life? Research shows that there might be an interplay between the microbes in your gut (gut microbiota) and aging. Hence, the answer is:...

Studies of the bugs within: telling sickness from cure

Gut microbiota, the bacterial communities that live inside our bodies, more and more appear to be related to our well-being. A major challenge for modern...

The unexpected partner(s): a billion viruses

What constitutes a human body? What is it that makes your body, your own? With our research, we begin to break down the human body to investigate the smallest...

Killing C. difficile with targeted strikes

C. difficile poses a huge threat to human health, but the friendly bacteria of the gut provide us with a natural resistance to infection. By reprogramming...

Discovery of high-order drug synergies – from impossible to dirt cheap

Imagine that a super-computer integrated multitudes of biological data and predicted that a certain 10-way drug combination will have synergy. Traditional...