Red cabbage juice may ease inflammatory bowel disease

Red cabbage juice can alleviate inflammation-associated digestive health conditions such as inflammatory bowel disease in mice.

Eric Slusher-U. Missouri • futurity
yesterday ~5 min

Drugs that aren’t antibiotics can also kill bacteria − new method pinpoints how

There are many ways to kill microbes that cause dangerous infections. Combining genetic screening with machine learning can help researchers identify new antimicrobials.

Mariana Noto Guillen, Ph.D. Candidate in Systems Biology, UMass Chan Medical School • conversation
April 16, 2024 ~7 min


Team solves mystery of how phages disarm bacteria

A new study of how phages disarm dangerous bacteria could lead to new treatments for bacterial infections, researchers report.

Laura Muntean-Texas A&M • futurity
April 15, 2024 ~7 min

When an antibiotic fails: MIT scientists are using AI to target “sleeper” bacteria

Most antibiotics target metabolically active bacteria, but with artificial intelligence, researchers can efficiently screen compounds that are lethal to dormant microbes.

Alex Ouyang | Abdul Latif Jameel Clinic for Machine Learning in Health • mit
April 8, 2024 ~4 min

Bacteria can sense when their relatives die

"...populations of bacteria can alter their collective behaviors when they sense the deaths of their relatives."

Carnegie Mellon • futurity
March 29, 2024 ~5 min

Thin, bacteria-coated fibers could lead to self-healing concrete that fills in its own cracks

Your skin heals from cuts and scrapes on its own − what if concrete could do that too?

Yaghoob Farnam, Assistant Professor of Civil Engineering, Drexel University • conversation
March 22, 2024 ~7 min

AI can help predict whether a patient will respond to specific tuberculosis treatments, paving way for personalized care

People have been battling tuberculosis for thousands of years, and drug-resistant strains are on the rise. Analyzing large datasets with AI can help humanity gain a crucial edge over the disease.

Sriram Chandrasekaran, Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering, University of Michigan • conversation
March 20, 2024 ~6 min

A protein found in human sweat may protect against Lyme disease

Researchers also found that a variant of the protein is not as protective against the bacteria and increases susceptibility to the disease.

Anne Trafton | MIT News • mit
March 19, 2024 ~8 min


Accident leads to basis for new antibiotics to kill resistant bacteria

Researchers trying to harness electricity from bacteria realized they may be onto solving another issue: antibiotic resistance.

Sonia Fernandez-UCSB • futurity
Feb. 22, 2024 ~13 min

Bacteria can develop resistance to drugs they haven’t encountered before − scientists figured this out decades ago in a classic experiment

The Nobel Prize-winning Luria−Delbrück experiment showed that random mutations in bacteria can allow them to develop resistance by chance.

Qi Zheng, Professor of Biostatistics, Texas A&M University • conversation
Feb. 22, 2024 ~7 min

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