Why is it important to study bacteria? Pseudomonas aeruginosa is a bacterial strain that can be responsible for several human diseases: the most serious include malignant external otitis, ...

Identification of microbes joins together the discipline of microbiology with the study of infectious diseases. Methods of reliable and accurate microbial identification are valuable to a wide range ...

Researchers at TU Delft and partner organizations have built graphene sensors small enough to detect the vibrations of a ...

A doctor can wait for days to get laboratory results identifying the microbe behind a patient’s illness. But a new biosensing chip can do the same thing on-site in minutes (Anal. Chem., DOI: ...

Establishes new standard for fighting hospital-acquired infections (HAI) and appropriate antibiotic use “Our initial product, as well as the family of tests we intend to offer based on our ...

HAYWARD, CA--(Marketwired - April 03, 2017) - Biolog, Inc. announced today details of its latest GEN III identification database version 2.8, containing 1568 taxa, including 258 plant pathogens. This ...

Currently, the detection of food poison outbreaks caused by bacteria takes a long time and is expensive, but this does not have to be the case in the future. Researchers have found a method for the ...

Far too many antibiotics are used around the world. As a result, bacteria are becoming resistant to these drugs. Curing bacterial diseases is becoming more difficult than before, because antibiotics ...

Most of the time, the DNA used for legal evidence is human DNA. But scientists in Colorado think DNA evidence from bacteria may someday finds its way into the courtroom. Noah Fierer of the University ...