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Organisms ensure the survival of their species by genetically adapting to the environment. If environmental conditions change too rapidly, the extinction of a species may be the consequence. A strateg...
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Read morePrototype, 7-foot-tall sanitizer automates disinfection of hard-to-clean hospital equipment
Hopkins experts in applied physics, computer engineering, infectious diseases, emergency medicine, microbiology, pathology and surgery have unveiled a 7-foot-tall, $10,000 shower-cubicle-shaped device...
Health and Medicine | Read moreNew silver nanoparticle skin gel for healing burns
With names like silver sulfadiazine and silver nitrate, these germ-fighters save lives and speed healing. The researchers describe gel composed of silver nanoparticles — each 1/50,000th the width of ...
Life Sciences | Read moreA Matter of Density, Not Quantity
Infections of wounds, pneumonia, etc. in hospitals in particular are often caused by bacteria called Pseudomonas aeruginosa. Once they reach a certain density, colonies of Pseudomonas aerugino...
Life Sciences | Read morePlant Microbe Shares Features with Drug-Resistant Pathogen
An international team of scientists has discovered extensive similarities between a strain of bacteria commonly associated with plants and one increasingly linked to opportunistic infections in hospit...
Life Sciences | Read moreParticles containing lead affect the climate by promoting ice formation in clouds
Lead pollution in the air stimulates the formation of ice particles in clouds. A team of scientists from the USA, Germany and Switzerland has found that particles containing lead are excellent...
Earth Sciences | Read moreNanoparticles in Cosmetics/Personal Care Products May Have Adverse Environmental Effects
Their report was part of symposia that included almost two dozen papers at the 237th National Meeting of the American Chemical Society where scientists grappled to understand the environmental and hum...
Life Sciences | Read moreSuperbug complicates treatment of infections in cystic fibrosis
CF patients produce large quantities of sticky mucus in their lungs that is difficult to expel and is easily infected by bacteria. A recent treatment for CF, inhalation of a sugar called mannitol, wor...
Life Sciences | Read moreBiologist enhances use of bioinformatic tools and achieves precision in genetic annotation
In concrete, for his PhD thesis, “Strategies for the comparative genomic study of microorganisms with various levels of pregenomic information and genic complexity”, Dr Lavin used an emerging discipli...
Life Sciences | Read moreBiosynthetics production with detours
Scientists at the Helmholtz-Zentrum für Infektionsforschung (HZI) in Braunschweig, Germany have achieved an important advance in better understanding metabolic pathways in bacteria and their use. Usin...
Life Sciences | Read moreWhen Under Attack, Plants Can Signal Microbial Friends for Help
The finding quashes the misperception that plants are “sitting ducks”--at the mercy of passing pathogens--and sheds new light on a sophisticated signaling system inside plants that rivals the nervous ...
Life Sciences | Read moreCaptain Birdseye's robotic nose
The research in the Royal Society of Chemistry's Journal of Environmental Monitoring reports a new method to detect bacteria that break down dead fish and produce the distasteful smell of rotting...
Life Sciences | Read moreFood poisoning bacteria prefer duck to beef on meat factory surfaces
"Factories handling raw and processed meat products can become plagued by persistent harmful Listeria monocytogenes bacteria stuck to their work surfaces and machinery from where they can enter f...
Life Sciences | Read moreRattlesnake-type poisons used by superbug bacteria to beat our defences
The toxins are manufactured by communities of the hospital superbug Pseudomonas aeruginosa called biofilms, which are up to a thousand times more resistant to antibiotics than free-floating single bac...
Life Sciences | Read moreTo Find Campylobacter jejuni, Look in the Biofilms
Campylobacter jejuni is a pathogen found in chickens and is the nation’s leading cause of foodborne bacterial diarrhea, so poultry producers look for ways to control it before the birds go to processi...
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