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Healing with star power: Using plasma to treat skin wounds

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Drs Eric Robert and Thierry Prazuck research the use of non-thermal, or cold, plasma, for decontamination and healing in skin wounds with infections

New resistant bacteria strains and viruses are appearing all the time, making the treatment of infections increasingly difficult. Humanity is in dire need of new weapons to fight this worldwide war against emerging pathogens. Dr Eric Robert, Thierry Prazuck, and their teams at GREMI, CNRS/Université d’Orléans, and CHRO, Orléans, France, perform pioneering work using cold plasma to treat bacterial infections. […]

One cell’s death is a microbe’s DINNR: How intestinal bacteria use our dying cells as fuel

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Dr CJ Anderson and Professor Kodi Ravichandran research the relationship between programmed cell death and bacterial infections in the intestinal tract, with an aim to understand the potential impact that this could have on chemotherapy patients

Until now, a great deal has remained unknown about the relationship between programmed cell death and bacterial infections. However, recent work by Dr CJ Anderson and Professor Kodi Ravichandran from VIB-UGent, Belgium, has shed new light on this topic and introduced a new layer to the complex host–pathogen interaction. The team has shown that dying mammalian cells produce and shed […]