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Antibiotic resistance is a major health threat that causes almost 700,000 deaths a year, and its toll is expected to grow. Here are some things you can do to offer your own resistance.
Microbial-based solutions for agriculture are among some of the new innovations having an impact on the sector in the developed world.
From losing inhibitions and anger to schizophrenia and dementia – science is uncovering the role small critters play in a range of illnesses and behaviours.
A global trend to regulate frequent antibiotic use in livestock and poultry production is emerging but Africa is still lagging behind.
New research works out how to translate between the language of biology – molecules – and the language of microelectronics – electrons. It could open the door to new kinds of biosensors and therapeutics.
The bacteria in a mother’s breast milk are important because it helps develop a baby’s gut. Research shows this bacteria are different depending on where mothers live and what they eat.
New research shows viruses can effectively turn bacteria into animal-like cells.
Long viewed simply as ‘germs,’ the hidden half of nature turns out to be crucial to the health of people and plants.
The answer – fewer than are in a banana – has implications for the study of human health and raises questions about what generates complexity anyway.
For most of us, the form of stool we excrete can vary widely depending, in part, on what we’ve been doing.
The make-up of our gut is constantly changing and affects everything from our immune system and digestion, to our brain function.
Links have been made between the community of bacteria in your gut and depression, pain, stress and sleep. So what does the science say?
Bacteria are single-celled organisms but you’d be fooled to think they weren’t also hugely complex.
Resistant bacteria enter our aging sewer infrastructure and may eventually end up in the environment through sewage spills.
Anyone for a 2,512-day-old burger?
Just like humans, corals live with myriad microscopic organisms. We are just starting to understand this unseen world.
How slow diagnosis of bacterial infections is exacerbating our antibiotics problem.
What started with a study of diseases transmitted by mosquitos, could end with a new way of treating cancer.
Bacteria can produce their own ‘buildings’ so scientists are genetically engineering them to build ours.
Top contributors
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Senior Lecturer in Clinical Microbiology, University of Leicester
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Senior Lecturer in Pharmaceutical Sciences, RMIT University
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Professor, The University of Queensland
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Professor of Biological Sciences, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
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Professor of Food Science, Clemson University
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Professor of Microbiology, Swinburne University of Technology
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Lecturer in Microbiology, Cardiff Metropolitan University
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Prof. Institute for Molecular Bioscience, The University of Queensland
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Professor, Microbiology, Monash University
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Research Associate in Microbiology, University of Guelph
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Professor of Infectious Diseases and Microbiology, Australian National University
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Senior Lecturer in Biology, Brunel University London
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Senior Research Fellow, School of Medicine, The University of Western Australia
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Researcher, Griffith Institute for Drug Discovery, Griffith University
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Professor of Emerging Technology, Co-director of the Hub for Biotechnology in the Built Environment, Newcastle University
