A new study reveals that bacteria can survive antibiotic treatment through two fundamentally different "shutdown modes," not ...

Bacterial populations produce persisters, which are phenotypic variants of the wild type whose function is survival. Persisters are dormant, non-dividing cells that exhibit multidrug tolerance and ...

Antibiotic overuse can lead to antibiotic resistance, but classic antibiotic resistance might not completely explain why antibiotics sometimes fail. Sub-populations of bacteria called persister cells ...

Cancer therapies do not always succeed in eliminating tumor cells. Some of these cells enter a state of senescence—a latent, ...

A recent groundbreaking study published in Nature from researchers at the Institut Curie in Paris unveils a novel mechanism by which lysosomal iron can trigger ferroptosis. This study unravels that ...

Oils from garlic and several other common herbs and medicinal plants show strong activity against the bacterium that causes Lyme disease, according to a study by researchers at the Johns Hopkins ...

A new study found that a slow-growing variant form of Lyme bacteria caused severe symptoms in a mouse model. The slow-growing variant form of Lyme bacteria, according to the researchers, may account ...

One-third of cancer patients will experience recurrence and succumb within five years of diagnosis, despite an encouraging initial response to therapy. Over the past decade, a rare subset of cells ...

Barcelona, 15 January 2025 - Cancer therapies do not always succeed in eliminating tumour cells. Some of these cells enter a state of senescence—a latent, non-dividing state that is generally ...