The mix of microorganisms in the stomach can affect the symptoms of hypopituitarism in mice, according to research from the Francis Crick Institute. Additionally, they demonstrated that aspirin might alleviate the symptoms of hormone insufficiency in these animals. The condition known as hypopituitarism, in which the pituitary gland produces insufficient […]
Microbiology
When penicillin was discovered, it was heralded as “the silver bullet” because of its extraordinary ability to eradicate germs that cause illness without endangering humans. Since then, several other antibiotics have been created that target a variety of bacteria; however, the more frequently these antibiotics are used, the higher the […]
It is like the communication network that genes have among them to affect one another.
Here the investigators infected mice with SARS-CoV-2 and sequenced the genomes of viruses replicating in the brain versus the lung. In the lung, spike protein had a very close structure to the infecting virus.
The results underline the necessity for widespread surveillance as well as the discovery of new SARS-CoV-2 mutations in animals.
US officials announced in late March 2024 that dairy cows in Texas were experiencing an epidemic of the highly pathogenic avian influenza virus or HPAI H5N1.
90% of the adult population is infected with EBV, which often causes no symptoms or sickness.
Comparing Escherichia coli (E. coli) to eukaryotic cells, the structure of bacteria is generally simpler.
Biopreparedness and virological surveillance involves studying the causes that favor zoonotic spillover and facilitates human-to-human transmission.
For almost a century, researchers have mined Streptomyces for antibiotics; nevertheless, the recently discovered umbrella toxin went unnoticed.
