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Antibiotic resistance is rising at disturbing rates and contributes to the deaths of millions of people yearly. Antibiotic resistant infections disproportionately affect those with immunocompromising conditions...

Using experimental and computational methods, Boston College researchers reveal workings of bacterial defense system This image from Boston College researchers depicts the first curated, genome-scale metabolic network of the lethal bacterium Streptococcus pneumoniae; a major cause of illness around the ...

Genetic Engineering News – The ability of clinicians to discriminate between bacterial and viral infections among their patients is critical, not only to administer the appropriate therapeutic intervention but to help quell the rise in a major global health threat—antibiotic ...

The combination of Reverse Transcription (RT) and high-throughput sequencing has emerged as a powerful combination to detect modified nucleotides in RNA via analysis of either abortive RT-products or of the incorporation of mismatched dNTPs into cDNA. Here researchers from the ...