Microbiome of the nose: removing iron from multi-resistant germs

Whether dangerous staphylococci survive in the nose depends on what other bacteria are present - and how they obtain iron.

09-Aug-2024 - A research team led by Simon Heilbronner, Professor of Microbiology at the LMU Biocenter, has investigated how different bacteria that can colonize the nasal cavity deal with the iron deficiency there and interact with each other. The results of the study, which was recently published in the ISME ...

Textbook knowledge turned on its head: 3-in-1 microorganism discovered

Newly multifunctional bacterial species

06-Nov-2023 - A team of researchers from the Leibniz Institute DSMZ- German Collection of Microorganisms and Cell Cultures GmbH and Technische Universität Braunschweig, in collaboration with the University of Vienna and the University of Wisconsin, USA, has now been able to show that there is an incredibly ...

Algae as a beacon of hope?

14-Dec-2022 - Whether it'snew biofuels, innovative cancer drugs or sustainable foods, researchers around the world see immense potential in so-called euglenoids. However, of 1,000 known species, only 20 have been studied so far. The Euglena International Network (EIN) wants to change that. On board: ...

Tracking down minorities in kitchen sponges

First study on non-bacterial microbiota in used kitchen sponges

13-Jun-2022 - With up to 54 billion bacteria per cubic centimetre, used kitchen sponges have one of the densest populations of microbes of all household utensils. Despite their popularity, in reality dishwashing sponges make little sense as kitchen cleaning utensils from a hygiene point of view since they can ...

Raman Microspectroscopy for Microbiology

Methodology can provide new insights into a variety of key topics in microbiology

17-Jan-2022 - Raman microspectroscopy is a fast and non-invasive technology to determine the chemical composition of living microorganisms in near real-time. Jürgen Popp, scientific director of the Leibniz Institute of Photonic Technology, together with an international team of expert scientists, describes the ...

Chlamydia: How bacteria take over control

30-Mar-2017 - To survive in human cells, chlamydiae have a lot of tricks in store. Researchers of the University of Würzburg have now discovered that the bacterial pathogens also manipulate the cells' energy suppliers in the process. When Chlamydia trachomatis infects a human cell, it faces a huge challenge: ...

Here comes the long-sought-after iron-munching microbe

26-Oct-2016 - A microbe that ‘eats’ both methane and iron: microbiologists have long suspected its existence, but were not able to find it - until now. Researchers at Radboud University and the Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology in Bremen discovered a microorganism that couples the reduction of iron ...

Merck Millipore Presents Annual Award for Advancement of Women in Microbiology

Merck Millipore Congratulates Nancy Hopkins, Ph.D. as Recipient of 2015 Alice C. Evans Award

03-Jun-2015 - Merck Millipore announced that Nancy Hopkins, Ph.D., Amgen, Inc. Professor of Biology (emerita), Biology Department and Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), is the recipient of the 2015 Merck Millipore Alice C. Evans Award for Leadership in ...