The last time a new class of antibiotics reached the market was nearly three decades ago - but that could soon change, thanks to a discovery by researchers at McMaster University.

Researchers have demonstrated a technique for successfully encapsulating bacteria that can then be stored and applied to ...

A McMaster University team led by renowned researcher Gerry Wright has identified a strong candidate to challenge even some ...

Researchers have demonstrated a technique for successfully encapsulating bacteria that can then be stored and applied to plants to improve plant growth and protect against pests and pathogens. The ...

Dead bacteria release an enzyme that breaks down their contents into nutrients for other bacteria, highlighting a novel ...

A technique for integrating plant growth-promoting bacteria and agrochemicals for agricultural applications has been ...

In another lab test, the team prepared columns of freeze-dried bacteria with natural sandy soil inside PVC pipes but did not remove the biocement from the pipes. The PVC columns made of both play ...

culture-based approaches can take days to weeks for slow-growing bacteria and only work for a fraction of microbes. Antibiotic resistance genes were typically isolated by cloning from cultured ...

"We've discovered that when many bacteria grow in fluids containing spaghetti-like molecules called polymers, such as mucus in the lungs, they form cable-like structures that intertwine like ...

In Estonia, many people learned a lesson from ethnomedicine as children: that placing a plantain leaf on a scraped knee would ...

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