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New explanation for nature's hardiest life form
Spore-forming bacteria, present almost everywhere in our environment, can also cause serious infectious diseases, such as tetanus, anthrax, and botulism.Now researchers from Lund University an...
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Read moreNew imagining technique could lead to better antibiotics and cancer drugs
A recently devised method of imaging the chemical communication and warfare between microorganisms could lead to new antibiotics, antifungal, antiviral and anti-cancer drugs, said a Texas AgriLife Res...
Life Sciences | Read moreCommunity-acquired pneumonia in influenza season: There's a bad strain on the rise
Two articles in the European Respiratory Journal's November issue are dedicated to this dangerous and versatile microorganism.For many years, MRSA infections were associated with hospital...
Health and Medicine | Read moreFight against pathogen: plant geneticists make decisive breakthrough
It attacks important cultivated plants such as rice, peppers, tomatoes and citrus fruits by manipulating the genes of these plants. Biologists at the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg (MLU) h...
Life Sciences | Read moreThe defense strategy of plants
If the mechanism that plants use to defend themselves can be understood, it will be possible to produce plants that are resistant to disease. The Plant Immunity Research Group is also undertaking rese...
Life Sciences | Read moreResearchers Identify Workings of L-Form Bacteria
L-form bacteria, which were first discovered in the 1930s, are morphological variants of classical bacteria that lack a cell wall. Under specialized growth conditions L-form bacteria are capable of fo...
Life Sciences | Read moreResearcher Uncovers Potential Key to Curing Tuberculosis
Tuberculosis is caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis and is a contagious disease that is on the rise, killing 1.5 to 2 million people worldwide annually.Reuben Peters, associate professor in the d...
Life Sciences | Read moreDeath by Light
The increasing antibiotic resistance of bacteria is a serious problem of our time. Hospital germs in particular have developed strains against which practically every current antibiotic is ineffective...
Life Sciences | Read moreScientists Discover Mechanism to Make Existing Antibiotics More Effective at Lower Doses
The study led by Evgeny A. Nudler, PhD, The Julie Wilson Anderson Professor of Biochemistry at NYU Langone Medical Center, provides evidence that Nitric Oxide, or NO, is able to alleviate the oxidativ...
Life Sciences | Read moreUsing microbes for the quick clean up of dirty oil
These acidic compounds persist in the environment, taking up to 10 years to break down. Mr Richard Johnson, presenting his PhD research to the Society for General Microbiology's meeting at Heriot...
Life Sciences | Read moreHow manuka honey helps fight infection
Meticillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) was grown in the laboratory and treated with and without manuka honey for four hours. The experiment was repeated with sugar syrup to determine if the...
Health and Medicine | Read moreRisks involved with transgenic fish
But what happens in the natural environment if transgenic fish escape? Researchers at the University of Gothenburg have studied transgenic fish on behalf of the EU and are urging caution: ...
Life Sciences | Read more$3 million grant from the Gates Foundation for tuberculosis vaccine research
In the coming 10 years TBVI hopes to raise 200 million euros from governments, foundations and private industry for the discovery and early clinical development of new vaccines. Development of new vac...
Awards Funding | Read moreAphids Saved From Gruesome Death by Virus-Infected Bacteria
But for pea aphids under attack by parasitic wasps, carrying infected bacteria is the difference between life and a slow death, according to new research from The University of Arizona in Tucson. ...
Life Sciences | Read moreUTSA biology researchers demystify elusive war zone bacterium
Tao Weitao, a researcher in the College of Sciences' Department of Biology at the University of Texas at San Antonio is making great strides in a project that was funded one year ago by the San A...
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