Researchers have developed a targeted approach to combat periodontitis without disrupting the natural balance of the oral ...

The new GLA-3M-052-LS+OVA vaccine can be delivered as a nasal spray. Three doses protected mice from infection from SARS-CoV-2 and other coronaviruses for three months, and reduced the viral load in ...

Researchers have discovered and characterized at the atomic level a mechanism that enables bacterial pathogens—including ...

For years, treating gum disease has meant scraping away plaque, cutting out damaged tissue or turning to antibiotics that ...

Pseudomonas aeruginosa is an opportunistic pathogenic bacterium present in many ecological niches, such as plant roots, stagnant water or even the pipes of our homes. Naturally very versatile, it can ...

Bacterial infections pose significant challenges to agriculture and medicine, especially as cases of antibiotic-resistant bacteria continue to rise. In response, scientists are elucidating the ways ...

Inside every cell, thousands of molecular signals collide, overlap, and compensate, obscuring the true drivers of gene expression.

J. Paul Robinson, a Purdue Veterinary Medicine faculty member in the Department of Basic Medical Sciences, helped develop a Purdue innovation that creates a fingerprint-like pattern to identify ...

Researchers have uncovered new ways that bacteria respond to zinc—a metal that is used by the human immune system to target bacterial pathogens for destruction. Specifically, the researchers showed ...

Troy, N.Y. -- Researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have discovered new details about how bacteria generate energy to live. In two recently published papers, the scientists add key specifics ...