Bacteria

Colourful picture of fungal spore colonising a macrophage

Health & Medicine

Why antibiotics give you thrush and other microbiome mishaps

Antibiotics cause an imbalance between fungi and bacteria in our microbiome. New ways of understanding this imbalance can help protect against serious disease

Baby chicks

Sciences & Technology

The vaccine improving the health of Australia's chickens

A new vaccine is protecting one-day-old chicks from a pneumonia-like illness that costs the poultry industry millions of dollars each year

A computer illustration of Mycobacterium ulceran

Sciences & Technology

We now know what causes the Buruli ulcer, so what are we doing about it?

Knowing that mosquitoes are involved in the transmission of the Buruli ulcer in Victoria is a breakthrough, but we need to work out what happens next to tackle the disease

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Sciences & Technology

Scientists and government agencies are targeting mosquitoes with bacteria

The Wolbachia bacterium prevents mosquitoes from spreading dengue fever – and now a new strain is protecting people in Malaysia

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Environment

For coral, teamwork makes the dream work

The discovery of clusters of two types of bacteria in the tentacles of corals sheds light on their role in coral reef health

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Sciences & Technology

The fly DNA fighting killer bacteria

The genome of an Australian fly has won an evolutionary “arms race” against a killer bacteria by evolving to co-exist with it

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Environment

The smallest marine microbes share nutrients – briefly

Fleeting interactions between the smallest phytoplankton and bacteria help to shape global ocean productivity

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Health & Medicine

Into the wild to fight antibiotic resistance

Antimicrobial resistance is part of the chemical warfare bacteria wage in nature, and that’s where researchers now looking for new clues to overcome it

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Sciences & Technology

Tackling a global crop pandemic - from the air

The spread of Xf bacteria is a huge threat to global agriculture, but research is enhancing our capacity to detect it in crops using airborne monitoring

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Sciences & Technology

Purifying water with a simple powder

Researchers have found a material that quickly kills bacteria in drinking water, creating a safe and cheaper alternative to chlorine.

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