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What makes S. aureus so dangerous? The virulence of S. aureus lies in its ability to adapt to environmental pressures and immune defenses quickly. A central feature of its survival strategy is the ...

(Photo Credit: Moment/Getty Images) Two kinds of bacteria, Staphylococcus aureus and Streptococcus ... Sliding a tampon into place could make microscopic tears in your vaginal walls that can ...

Cleanliness is often associated with visible dirt. But when it comes to shoes, what’s lurking beneath the surface is often microscopic and far more dangerous than a little mud or dried grass.

Using LLNL's Sierra supercomputer, a Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) team has made significant progress in understanding how microscopic hot spots form in insensitive high explosives ...

Although there are more than 30 types of staph bacteria, one type is usually responsible for most infections: Staphylococcus aureus. The Staphylococcus bacteria live on some people’s skin or in their ...

New Horizons in Physics Prize Waseem Bakr, for the realization of quantum gas microscopes for atoms and molecules, providing a microscopic view on correlations and transport in strongly ...

aureus mobilome that confer immunity against infection with phages. This finding was possible thanks to Umeå University's cryoelectron microscope. These genes interfere with the ability of phages ...

FILE - A microscopic view of brain tissue infected with the rabies virus, showing inflammation and damage to nerve cells. Rabies is almost always fatal once symptoms appear and typically spreads ...

The liquid antiseptics applied in the study were under brand names: Prontosan Wound Irrigation Solution (later referred to as the “P”, B. Braun Medical AG, Melsungen Germany) containing ...