In 1988, I was asked to summarize a symposium on the then relatively new field of microbial pathogenesis and to comment on the contributions of molecular biology and genetics to the study of bacterial ...

Niigata, Japan - The Department of Neurology at Niigata University has developed a new in silico method for evaluating the pathogenicity of missense variants using AlphaFold2 (MOVA). Rare variants in ...

The supercoiling of bacterial chromosomes around histone-like proteins can trigger the expression of genes that make the microbe invasive, new research shows. The discovery could provide a new target ...

Objective: To evaluate the detection performance of microfluidic chip-based multiplex PCR technology for rapid detection of ...

Molecular piracy and the mobilization of Staphylococcus aureus pathogenicity islands Staphylococcus aureus is an opportunistic pathogen that can cause serious local and systemic infections in humans ...

Gram-negative bacteria cause a variety of infectious diseases in plants and animals alike. Outbreaks of Salmonella and E. coli infections often make headlines due to their severity, and people have to ...

Researchers from the Disruptive & Sustainable Technologies for Agricultural Precision (DiSTAP) Interdisciplinary Research Group (IRG) of Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology (SMART), MIT ...

A pathogen is a term that refers to a microorganism that causes disease in an organism. Pathogenicity is the ability of the pathogen to produce disease. Pathogenicity is expressed by microbes using ...

BACTERIA are encased in rigid cell walls that confer upon the organisms their characteristic shapes. In addition to the obvious role of these structures in protecting the bacteria from environmental ...

Detailed methods on how to perform research on SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, including procedures that effectively inactivate the virus to enable safe study of infected cells have been ...