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Persistent little buggers
Ed Yong might be my favorite blogger. He’s certainly the most prolific one I’m aware of (don’t sign up for his twitter feed if you don’t want to be inundated all day long — how do people keep up with...
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Sleuths solve one puzzle in the mystery of bacterial persistence
Photo by California Cthulhu (Will Hart) via Flickr This afternoon, reading through Professor Kim Lewis’ soon to be published article in Cell Press (available ahead of print here), I may have fancied...
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Why so persistent?
Staphylococcus cells. Photo by Thinkstock photos. Persistence — it’s what keeps us all surviving. If it weren’t for this lovely quality, we’d just give up and crawl under a rock somewhere because it’s...
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Researchers discover new treatment to cure the MRSA ‘superbug’
Recent work from University Distinguished Professor of Biology Kim Lewis promises to overcome one of the leading public health threats of our time. In a groundbreaking study published Wednesday in the...
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3Qs: A new path to curing chronic Lyme disease
Earlier this year, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention projected the number of undiagnosed cases of Lyme disease to be 10-fold higher than previously believed. Of the newly identified...
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Researchers’ discovery may explain difficulty in treating Lyme disease
Northeastern University researchers have found that the bacterium that causes Lyme disease forms dormant persister cells, which are known to evade antibiotics. This significant finding, they said,...
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Northeastern researchers work to keep hospital-acquired staph infections in...
Hospital-related staph infections are rampant. In 2005 alone there were an estimated 478,000 cases in the U.S., according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The numbers are dropping,...
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