The substantial increase in multidrug-resistant (MDR) pathogenic bacteria is a major threat
to global health. Recently, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported …

Multidrug resistance of the pathogenic microorganisms to the antimicrobial drugs has
become a major impediment toward successful diagnosis and management of infectious …

Lactic acid bacteria (LAB) are important starter, commensal, or pathogenic microorganisms.
The stress physiology of LAB has been studied in depth for over 2 decades, fueled mostly by …

Silver-based antibacterial agents have attracted much attention in biomedical fields owing to
their high antibacterial activity. Silver ions (Ag+) play a significant role in killing bacteria …

In the present study, we report the preparation of silver nanoparticles in the range of 10–15
nm with increased stability and enhanced anti-bacterial potency. The morphology of the …

Over the millennia, microorganisms have evolved evasion strategies to overcome a myriad
of chemical and environmental challenges, including antimicrobial drugs. Even before the …

Most of the natural processes also take place in the nanometer scale regime. Therefore, a
confluence of nanotechnology and biology can address several biomedical problems, and …

The formation and turnover of soil organic matter (SOM) includes the biogeochemical
processing of the macronutrient elements nitrogen (N), phosphorus (P) and sulphur (S) …

With the opportunistic pathogen Pseudomonas aeruginosa, quorum sensing based on
homoserine lactones was found to influence biofilm formation. Here we discern a …

Protein phosphorylation is a key posttranslational modification, which reversibly regulates
almost all processes in the living cell. Deregulated signaling is a hallmark of cancer and …