Tag: Bacterial infections
Mitochondria can sense bacteria and trigger your immune system to trap...
Andrew Monteith, University of Tennessee
Mitochondria have primarily been known as the energy-producing components of cells. But scientists are...
Fighting antibiotic resistance at the source – using machine learning to...
Abdullahi Tunde Aborode, Mississippi State University
Antibiotic resistance is a growing public health problem around the world. When bacteria...
Flesh-eating bacteria infections are on the rise in the US −...
Bill Sullivan, Indiana University
Flesh-eating bacteria sounds like the premise of a bad horror movie, but it’s a growing...
Sepsis is one of the most expensive medical conditions in the...
Alexander (Sasha) Poltorak, Tufts University and Hayley Muendlein, Tufts University
Sepsis is a life-threatening condition arising from the body’s...
Ticks spread plenty more for you to worry about beyond Lyme...
Jerome Goddard, Mississippi State University
When it comes to problems caused by ticks, Lyme disease hogs a lot of the limelight. But various tick species...
Why you may not need all those days of antibiotics
Brad Spellberg, University of Southern California
A recent article in the British Medical Journal set off a bit of a firestorm with its claim that...
EXPLORING NATURE
Trump’s EPA decides climate change doesn’t endanger public health – the...
Jonathan Levy, Boston University; Howard Frumkin, University of Washington; Jonathan Patz, University of Wisconsin-Madison, and Vijay Limaye, University of Wisconsin-Madison
