CDC warns of dangerous uptick in infections from flesh-eating bacteria in three states — officials say the cause ‘is well-documented’

Rising temperatures have manifested in conspicuous manners along the East Coast, including storms and wildfires. But a new threat has been flying under the radar and is impossible to detect by the naked eye: flesh-eating bacteria. What’s happening? The CDC’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report published last February found that seven people from North Carolina … Read more

A Virus Found in Wastewater Beat Back a Woman’s ‘Zombie’ Bacteria

But Cole’s progress was short-lived. Her blood infection returned, and her doctors determined the phage-antibiotic combination was no longer effective. She passed away from pneumonia in March 2022, seven months after phage therapy was stopped. Cole’s case demonstrates both the hope and limitations of phage therapy. The problem this time wasn’t just bacterial evolution. When … Read more

How Many Microbes Does It Take to Make You Sick?

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. For a pathogen to make us sick, it must overcome a lot. First it has to enter the body, bypassing natural barriers such as skin, mucus, cilia, and stomach acid. Then it needs to reproduce; some bacteria and parasites can do this virtually anywhere in … Read more

The Secret of How Cells Make ‘Dark Oxygen’ Without Light

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Scientists have come to realize that in the soil and rocks beneath our feet there lies a vast biosphere with a global volume nearly twice that of all the world’s oceans. Little is known about these underground organisms, who represent most of the planet’s microbial … Read more

Your Smartwatch Band Is Most likely Lined in Dangerous Micro organism. This is How one can Clear It

Do you frequently sanitize your smartwatch band? You may wish to now. A scientific research printed in Might examined 20 completely different watch and health tracker bands and located 95% had been contaminated with a minimum of one sort of dangerous micro organism that may trigger infections.  The paper detailed how researchers examined bands worn … Read more

Primitive Asgard Cells Present Life on the Brink of Complexity

The discovering that Lokis have actin tentacles provides plausibility to a eukaryogenesis situation known as the inside-out mannequin, Spang and Schleper stated. In 2014, the cell biologist Buzz Baum at College Faculty London and his cousin, the evolutionary biologist David Baum of the College of Wisconsin, Madison, proposed an thought that they had kicked round … Read more