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Why the Crocodile's Powerful Immune System Could Help Scientists Fight Antibiotic Resistance

An animal that should not survive its own habitatCrocodiles fight constantly. They lose limbs. They tear open each other's hides in territorial battles fought in water thick with fecal matter, rotting carcasses, and every pathogen a tropical swamp can produce. Their wounds almost never get infected. That observation, sitting in…

Times Life · Aug 22

Scientists finally know why astronauts struggle to poop in space — and reveal a hidden risk of long-haul spaceflight

A new NASA-backed study has pinpointed why astronauts often experience constipation in space and how that might affect their health on long-haul missions to Mars and beyond.

LiveScience · Aug 21

Horseshoe Crab Blood Powers Every Vaccine and Injection You Have Ever Been Given

The blue blood that guards every hospital on EarthHorseshoe crab blood is blue. Not metaphorically, literally blue, because it uses copper-based hemocyanin to carry oxygen instead of the iron-based hemoglobin that makes human blood red. But the colour is not why the biomedical industry harvests roughly 600,000 horseshoe crabs every…

Times Life · Aug 21

A Bean Gum Wiped Out Cancer-Linked Mouth Bacteria and Left the Good Ones Alone

A Penn gum cut cancer-linked oral bacteria by more than 99 percent in patient samples while sparing protective streptococci. A trial comes next.

Medical Daily · Aug 19

Why does Salmonella cause serious illness in some people but not others?

For most people, a Salmonella infection causes gastroenteritis, an inflammation of the stomach and intestines that can mean several miserable days of diarrhoea, cramps, fever or vomiting. Most people recover within a week. But severe diarrhoea and dehydration can still be dangerous, even while the bacteria remain confined to the…

The Conversation · Aug 19

Is your summer sea swim destroying your skin’s microbiome?

Taking a dip can affect our skin barrier in a whole host of ways. Katie Strick dives in

Evening Standard · Aug 19

A Recall That Says No Pathogen Was Found Can Still Be Serious When Inspection Never Happened

Some meat recalls no bacteria at all. Products made without federal inspection are pulled because nobody verified they were safe.

Medical Daily · Aug 19

The foods linked to the latest outbreaks of parasitic and bacterial illnesses in the US

Illnesses have forced massive recalls across dozens of states from coast to coast

The Independent UK · Aug 18

Every day, 50,000 litres of polluted water flow from South Africa's Stiebeuel River into natural filter beds, where stones, sand and biochar clean it in 5 days, removing 99% of harmful bacteria and creating water for irrigation

Researchers in South Africa are using a nature-based filtration system to treat polluted water from the Stiebeuel River in Franschhoek. At the Water Hub, old wastewater treatment infrastructure has been adapted with stones, coarse sand, biochar, plants and naturally occurring microbes to remove pollutants. The system treats approximately 50,000 litres…

The Economic Times · Aug 18

A Bile Acid Made by Gut Bacteria Sped Colorectal Tumor Growth in Animals Fed a Western Diet

A German-led team used pigs, mice, and human colon tissue to show that gut bacteria-derived bile acids drive colorectal tumor growth on a high-fat diet.

Medical Daily · Aug 18