Piperacillin, an antibiotic in the same class as penicillin, effectively cured mice of Lyme disease at 100-times less than the effective dose of doxycycline, the current gold standard treatment. At ...

More Ticks Carry Lyme Disease Bacteria in Pheasant-Release Areas Apr. 21, 2025 — Ticks are more likely to carry the bacteria that can cause Lyme disease in areas where pheasants are released ...

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Lyme disease, a disease transmitted when deer ticks feed on infected animals like deer and rodents, and then bite humans, impacts nearly half a million individuals in the U.S. annually.

Micro decisions can have macro consequences. A soft matter physicist reveals how interactions within simple cellular ...

The study reveals saccharin disrupts more than bacterial walls. It also messes with DNA inside bacterial cells. Treated bacteria grow long and thin, unable to divide. Their DNA starts replicating out ...

All bacteria exist as single cells at some point in their lives – except for one kind, known as multicellular magnetotactic bacteria (MMB), that is. Scooped from the sulfide-laden sediments of a tidal ...

preventing the bacteria from growing or dividing and ultimately leading to its death. Historically, piperacillin has been administered as part of a two-drug cocktail to treat severe strep ...

Bacteria are the most diverse organisms on Earth, with a number of species that’s difficult to quantify. They’re also incredibly old. Bacteria consist of a single cell. They do not have bones ...

SALT LAKE CITY — Hospital rooms might look spotless, but a recent study from the University of Utah reveals something alarming hiding in plain sight. The bacteria Clostridioides difficile, commonly ...

These rare bacteria can’t survive alone – they depend on one another, with each cell playing a specialized role. Unlike other microbes, they divide as an entire group, and researchers now know that ...