Antibiotic Resistance: A Silent Epidemic Endangering Our Health
Antibiotic resistance is a serious global issue. It occurs when bacteria become immune to antibiotic treatments, making ...
Towards Better Hygiene Standards: Detecting Fecal Contamination of Water Using Viral DNA
The presence of human waste in sewage overflow or stormwater runoffs that ultimately find their way into rivers and lakes is a major public health hazard. Conventionally, testing for fecal ...
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Fruit Flies Evolve New Defense Through Gene Transfer
In the continual arms race between parasites and their hosts, innovation was thought to be the key to a successful attack or ...
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Fruit flies steal bacterial defense to survive parasitic wasps
In the continual arms race between parasites and their hosts, innovation was thought to be the key to a successful attack or ...
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Detection of Viral DNA in Water Reveals Fecal Contamination
Researchers from South Korea developed a novel microbial source tracking method using CrAss-like phages, abundant viruses in ...
Scientists use viral DNA to detect fecal contamination of water
The presence of human waste in sewage overflow or stormwater runoff that ultimately finds its way into rivers and lakes is a ...
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New method detects human fecal contamination in water
The presence of human waste in sewage overflow or stormwater runoffs that ultimately find their way into rivers and lakes is ...
Microbiome study finds bacteria in human gut rarely update their CRISPR defense systems
Within the human digestive tract are trillions of bacteria from thousands of different species. These bacteria form ...
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Catch a virus by its tail
In a new study, Weizmann Institute of Science researchers reveal a bacterial immune system that thwarts the phages’ plot by attaching a small protein molecule to their tails. The components of this ...