A doctor in Lianyungang, East China's Jiangsu Province discovered a coin lodged in the upper digestive tract of a one-and-a-half-year-old child when the doctor took a chest X-ray of the child.

To stay healthy, plants balance the energy they put into growing with the amount they use to defend against harmful bacteria. The mechanisms behind this equilibrium have largely remained mysterious.

Case in point, this pump-focused workout designed to hit two of your primary pressing muscles, the chest and triceps. Balancing volume and intensity, this giant set format will pump up your pecs ...

But once created, it would be relatively easy for others to free so-called “bio-contained” bacteria of safeguards, argued the authors. “We therefore recommend that research with the goal of creating ...

These bacteria perform a trick that could keep plants healthy Date: January 2, 2025 Source: Princeton University, Engineering School Summary: Engineers showed that some types of soil bacteria can ...

The researchers were able to grow organoids using Invasin, a protein produced by bacteria. This study, published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences on 30 December, shows that ...

A University of Massachusetts Amherst-Ernest Pharmaceuticals team of scientists has made "exciting," patient-friendly advances in developing a non-toxic bacterial therapy, BacID, to deliver cancer ...

Bacteriophages, or “phages”, are viruses that can infect bacteria. With the number of bacteria that can evade antibiotics growing worryingly large, interest in using phages as therapies ...

The culprit driving this pandemic: multidrug-resistant bacteria, also known as superbugs. Superbugs show extensive antibiotic resistance, meaning drugs that would historically cure people of the ...

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