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Amyloid-beta forms sticky plaques on the outside of brain cells. This disrupts communication between neurons ... and me has found that a protein from Helicobacter pylori – a bacteria best known for ...

Medically reviewed by Anju Goel, MD Pyuria is a term that describes the presence of pus, which is mostly made up of white blood cells, in urine. Urine typically contains very few or no white blood ...

Gram-positive bacteria have a thick peptidoglycan cell wall. This means that they retain the dye in gram testing, causing them to have a blue color when a person views them under a microscope.

They put the cells under four radically different kinds of imaging devices—not only a transmission electron microscope, which they had been using when they first spotted the structures, but also ...

The bacteria were incubated overnight, under aerobic conditions in a Müller-Hinton broth (Merk) at 35.0 ± 0.5 °C. The cells were then adjusted to a 1.5 x 10 8 CFU/mL. The minimum inhibitory ...

Cheese fungus, head lice, human sperm, a bee eye, a microplastic bobble: scientific photographer Steve Gschmeissner has imaged them all under the probing lens of a scanning electron microscope ...

Sourdough under the microscope reveals microbes cultivated over generations "There can be more than 20 different species of yeast and 50 different species of bacteria in a sourdough starter" ...

A false-colored scanning electron microscope image of a sourdough starter shows starch grains (green), yeast (red) and bacteria (blue). Daniel Veghte, CC BY-SA Giving rise to the starter is the ...

Image: WTVC. "These yellow circles are just piles on piles of bacterial cells," Parker says. Some samples, like the keyboard and mouse, swing, and a public restroom door handle, looked as he expected ...