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Can a Virus have it’s own immune system?
A new research led by Dr Kimberley Seed from the Tufts University School of Medicine provides the first evidence that bacteriophages – viruses that infect and replicate within bacteria – can acquire a...
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Picture of the Day: Live Cyanobacteria
This picture of cyanobacteria Gloeotrichia echinulata won 4th place in the 1992 Nikon Small World Competition. About 3 billion years ago, Earth was a different planet. It was not populated by people,...
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Picture of the Day: Bacterium Invictus
Clostridium difficile is a menace in hospitals and nursing homes, causing nearly 336,000 infections and 14,000 deaths a year in the United States. Antibiotics can temporarily knock down the bacterium,...
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Picture of the Day: A map that is alive?
The “roads” on this agar-gel map of the U.S. may not quite mirror reality, but they could help scientists build more-robust networks in the future. Physarum polycephalum, a type of slime mold, grows...
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Picture of the Day: Drug molecules vs Cancer
Green, T-shaped drug molecules fight “scary-looking, tentacled” breast cancer cells in an image that earned Emiko Paul of Echo Medical Media an honorable mention in the illustrations category. The...
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Picture of the Day: Friendly fire
Bacteria can benefit our bodies by aiding digestion, producing vitamins and even fighting infections. In the insect world there are surprising examples of such symbiotic relationships, such as the...
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Gut bacterium that causes… weight loss found
Obesity and type 2 diabetes are health issues currently affecting thousands of people worldwide. By the looks of it, these two conditions could one day be treated with the help of so-called good...
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