A University academic who left school early with dreams of being a rock star has been recognised for his internationally outstanding work in microbiology and his studies into the social lifestyle of ...

Bacterial cells are covered by a complex carbohydrate coat of armor that allows bacteria to survive and thrive in a range of environments. Bacterial sugars are intriguing therapeutic targets since ...

While we are no strangers to pandemics, medicine is ill-prepared for the rapid increase in bacterial infections that cannot be treated. To prevent the return to the era before penicillin, we must ...

Many countries now acknowledge the need to obtain their energy supply from renewable sources such as biomass. Prof. Verstraete will explain how his team have developed a new anaerobic digestion ...

This post was updated Nov. 20 at 7:47 p.m. A University of California professor and co-originator of genome editing technology Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats said ...

The UAB Department of Microbiology will host the 2025 Susan Roberts Dubay Endowed Lecture on Oct. 14, welcoming Lora Hooper, Ph.D., as this year’s keynote speaker presenting, “Vitamin A and barrier ...

Caves, by their nature, lack light and are isolated underground. Yet, it is the isolated, nutrient-limited nature of these environments that make them so fascinating to study. Caves contain remarkable ...

Each year millions of tons of plastics are produced and over three-quarters of that plastic eventually ends up in landfills or the environment. At the same time, there is a growing need to find novel ...

Each year millions of tons of plastics are produced and over three-quarters of that plastic eventually ends up in landfills or the environment. At the same time, there is a growing need to find novel ...