New publication unveils accretion of metal and antibiotic resistance in Enterococcus spp. during the last century
New data on the diversity of tolerance genes to major historical and contemporary metal pollutants arsenic, mercury and copper among Enterococcus spp. from anthropogenic sources and recovered from the last 120 years was published in the Journal Science of the Total Environment by UCIBIO researchers of the BacT-Drugs Lab at UCIBIO-University of Porto.
New publication reveals the molecular determinants that govern the recognition of a tumour and a pathogenic glycobiomarker
UCIBIO-NOVA researchers from the (Bio)Molecular Structure and interactions by NMR research Lab have just disclosed the molecular determinants that govern the recognition of the tumour and pathogenic glycobiomarker LacdiNAc by two human immune-related lectins.
International project Superbug Awareness for Education aims to fight antimicrobial resistance
Luísa Peixe, leader of the BacT_Drugs lab at UCIBIO-Porto, together with Filipa Grosso, researcher in the same lab, are part of the international consortium of the project SAFE- Superbug Awareness for Education, in the field of antimicrobial resistance, funded by the Europe
Nature Communications study maps full evolutionary journey of a leading hospital pathogen
An important finding has been published in Nature Communications by an international consortium including Ana R. Freitas, Carla Novais and Luísa Peixe from the Bact-Drugs lab at UCIBIO, in Faculdade de Farmácia da Universidade do Porto (FFUP).