How Does a Mammalian Brain Forget? So Antibiotics will identify this structural and chemical compositional difference between the two and hence destroy only the bacterial cell. Therefore, there is a need for such how antibacterial drugs affect bacteria agents which can act against such highly evolved bacteria. They are particularly active against gram-negative bacteria, including… Read More »
Three days after giving birth to her first child Sandra Henderson was struck down with one of the Northern Territory’s most lethal diseases. In a rare set of circumstances, the then 29-year-old, who spent about 15 years at Tindal RAAF Base with her partner, had contracted the deadly dirt-borne disease, melioidosis. She had no cuts… Read More »
GANGOTRI, India — High in the Himalayas, it’s easy to see why the Ganges River is considered sacred. According to Hindu legend, the Milky Way became this earthly body of water to wash away humanity’s sins. As it drains out of a glacier here, rock silt dyes the ice-cold torrent an opaque gray, but biologically,… Read More »
Whooping cough, also known as pertussis, is a highly contagious bacterial infection which affects the lungs and airways. And the hiding bacteria means people can unknowingly transmit the infection to other people leading to sporadic outbreaks of the condition, according to medics at University Hospital Southampton (UHS). Whooping cough is spread through the coughs and… Read More »
TUESDAY, Oct. 15, 2019 — Researchers say they have identified a compound in breast milk that combats the growth of infection-causing bacteria in infants. The compound is called glycerol monolaurate (GML), and the amount of GML in human breast milk is more than 200 times higher than in cow’s milk. Infant formula has no GML,… Read More »
New research reveals, for the first time, how certain bacteria in the vagina and cervix prime cells to defend against the most common sexually transmitted infection (STI). Scientists reveal how vaginal bacteria can protect against chlamydia. Scientists have known for a while that the composition of microbes, or microbiome, in the vagina and cervix can… Read More »