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US researchers decipher how one gut bacterium influences immunity

Drug Discovery World

Isselbacher Professor of Medicine in the Field of Gastroenterology at Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital, a core institute member at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, and co-director of the Center for Microbiome Informatics and Therapeutics at MIT. Study after study had suggested that A.

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Pathogenic genetic variations found to boost the risk of H. pylori–related stomach cancer

Medical Xpress

A large case-control study by international researchers at the RIKEN Center for Integrative Medical Sciences (IMS) in Japan has found that people who carry certain genetic risk factors for gastric (stomach) cancer have a much greater risk if they have also been infected by the bacterium Helicobacter pylori.

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Researchers peer inside deadly pathogen’s burglary kit

Scienmag

Structural insights about a deadly bacterium’s toolbox point to ways to block it Credit: Maria Schumacher Lab, Duke Biochemistry DURHAM, N.C. – The bacterium that causes the tick-borne disease tularemia is a lean, mean infecting machine.

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Cause of 1990s Argentina cholera epidemic uncovered

Scienmag

Work allows genomic monitoring for epidemic strains of Vibrio cholerae bacteria The evolution of epidemic and endemic strains of the cholera-causing bacterium Vibrio cholerae in Argentina has been mapped in detail by researchers at the Wellcome Sanger Institute, the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, the University of Cambridge and the (..)

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2020 Year in Review: COVID-19, CRISPR and Immunotherapies Define the Year for the Life Sciences

XTalks

From isolating SARS-CoV-2 in early January to sequencing its genome shortly thereafter and having a prototype vaccine against it within days, scientific process and progress have held steadfast throughout the pandemic. Infectious disease expert, epidemiologist and director of the Yale Institute for Global Health at Yale University, Saad B.