Researchers analysing his work have hinted that 2025 may have some hard-hitting events in store, ranging from an asteroid collision to another plague-like outbreak in the UK. Though Nostradamus ...

Both types of plague are caused by the Yersinia pestis bacterium. Bites from infected fleas are the most common cause of bubonic plague infection, but the pneumonic variant - where the bacterium ...

FILE - A recruiter talks with an applicant at a booth at a job fair at a shopping center in Beijing, on June 9, 2023. A record of more than one in five young Chinese are out of work, their career ...

But, in their 2022 study, Hoffman and Daly found that the bacterium—when dried and frozen—could weather 140,000 grays of radiation, a dose 28,000 times greater than what would kill a human.

In 1982, two Australian physician-scientists discovered a spiral-shaped bacterium whose form not only dictated function, but its capacity to dwell in the human body's harshest chemical environment.

Dubbed “Conan the Bacterium” for its extraordinary ability to tolerate the harshest of conditions, Deinococcus radiodurans can withstand radiation doses thousands of times higher than what ...

The 1896 Bombay Plague serves as a compelling example, illustrating how colonial authorities utilised mapping and policing not merely as tools for disease management but as instruments of ...

We currently lack a safe, effective and licensed vaccine for pneumonic plague, which is nearly always fatal and has been weaponized. Yersinia pestis overcomes host defense, in a large part ...

RICHMOND, Va. — For the past eight months a group of Virginia lawmakers have been looking at the issues of a lack of access to healthcare in small towns and rural parts of Virginia. The ...

Adding to the ever-growing list of newly discovered bacterial immune systems, we have characterized the mechanisms of an antiviral system called CmdTAC. CmdTAC blocks virus reproduction by modifyi ...

While different groups of bacteria were involved in the different countries examined, they all influenced pathways that synthesize B vitamins in the body. The researchers found the changes in gut ...