A simple test that measures how long it takes to kill bacteria could help doctors treat strains that are on their way to becoming resistant to antibiotics. If implemented in hospitals' microbiology ...

Matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization (MALDI) and electrospray ionization (ESI) mass spectrometry has become an important tool in the life sciences. Recently, mass spectrometry methods have been ...

Gram-positive bacteria have thick cell walls. A Gram stain test, which involves a chemical dye, stains the bacterium’s cell wall purple. On the other hand, gram-negative bacteria stain pink instead.

Amplicon-based sequencing approaches have been widely adopted for routine microbiology applications, including targeted 16S rRNA for bacterial taxonomic classification and tiled multiplex PCR for ...

Bacterial infections can be treated more efficiently if the cause of the disease is known. In most cases, all it takes to identify a pathogen is an analysis in a medical laboratory. Sometimes, however ...

A growing number of pathogens are developing resistance to one or more antibiotics, threatening our ability to treat infectious diseases. Now, according to a study published in Biophysical Journal, a ...