Peter H. Gilligan, Ph.D., D(ABMM) emeritus and F(AAM) was a medical microbiologist at UNC Health for 35 years. Here, he ...

A key to antibiotic resistance might be the use of viruses to kill bacteria, however, the systems that bacteria employ to defense themselves against viruses are unknown. Understanding these systems ...

Once considered obscure or opportunistic, invasive fungal infections are now surfacing with alarming frequency - and in ...

Whooping cough, or pertussis, was once a leading cause of death for children in the U.S. and worldwide before the ...

Each year, in late spring and early summer, female sea turtles will crawl out of the ocean under moonlight to lay their eggs in the sand, often returning to the same beach on which they were born many ...

Antibiotic resistance is a global health challenge that could overtake cancer mortality within a few decades. In a new study, researchers show that the emergence of resistance can be understood in the ...

Antibiotic resistance is a global health challenge that could overtake cancer mortality within a few decades. In a new study, ...

CD47-amyloid-β-CD74 signaling is a key driver of adaptive immunosuppression in sepsis, suppressing B cells and impairing ...

We came across a bullish thesis on Rapid Micro Biosystems, Inc. (RPID) on Twitter by Borlaug. In this article, we will summarize the bulls’ thesis on RPID. Rapid Micro Biosystems, Inc. (RPID)’s share ...

Saccharin destabilizes bacterial membranes and interferes with DNA replication, causing lysis and impairing virulence traits.