While sushi and sashimi are popular treats worldwide, a recent PhD study from NTNU's Department of Biotechnology and Food Science highlights potential health risks. Hyejeong Lee's research found that raw seafood products can contain Aeromonas bacteria, which can be harmful, especially to vulnerable groups.

Researchers from the University of California San Diego, in collaboration with Australian colleagues, have developed bacteria that can detect tumor DNA within a live organism. This breakthrough showed the potential of using the newly designed “Cellular Assay for Targeted CRISPR-discriminated Horizontal gene transfer” system to identify the presence of cancer in the colons of mice.

Researchers have mimicked the way the immune system responds to viruses and have developed a peptoid antiviral therapy that destroys enveloped viruses. This could help the design of future peptoid-based antiviral treatments.

Researchers at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital have revealed in a new study that xanthine, which is found in coffee, tea and chocolate, may play a role in gut health.

Carriers of a specific hidden bacteria have a 14 percent chance of developing an antibiotic resistant infection with 30 days of hospitalisation, according to researchers from Amsterdam UMC. The results have been published in The Lancet Infectious Diseases.

A new biosensor engineered by Penn State researchers offers scientists the first dynamic glimpses of manganese, an elusive metal ion that is essential for life.

Researchers have revealed that sugar molecules – human milk oligosaccharides – found abundantly in breast milk has the potential to treat and even prevent infections in new born babies as well as adults.

A study, in mice, found that gut bacteria — partly by producing compounds such as short chain fatty acids — affect the behavior of immune cells throughout the body, including ones in the brain that can damage brain tissue and exacerbate neurodegeneration in conditions such as Alzheimer’s disease.

Researchers at Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, have developed a new method that can easily purify contaminated water using a cellulose-based material. This discovery could have implications for countries with poor water treatment technologies and combat the widespread problem of toxic dye discharge from the textile industry.

A new study by Yves Brun has revealed that some bacteria living in biofilms has the ability to sacrifice themselves when the environment inside the biofilm declines, thus ensuring the survival of the community.