All bacteria articles
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NewsBioengineered mussel-inspired sticky microorganisms to help break down plastic waste
Scientists have tapped into nature’s adhesive genius, the sticky power of mussels, to create bioengineered microorganisms with powerful cling that could help transform environmental cleanup.
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News2-billion-year-old rock home to living microbes
Pockets of microbes have been found living within a sealed fracture in 2-billion-year-old rock. This could help us understand very early life on Earth and the hunt for evidence of life on Mars.
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NewsA tool to enhance taste and texture of sourdough and study the complexity of microbiomes
Researchers explore how acetic acid bacteria shapes emergent properties of sourdough, with implications across complex microbial systems.
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NewsPresence of bacteria in soil makes flowers more attractive to pollinators
Bacteria that live in soil and help roots fix nitrogen can boost certain plants’ capacity to reproduce by enhancing the attractiveness of the plant’s flowers to pollinators via a relationship known as mutualism that is widespread in plants and animals.
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NewsCampylobacter jejuni-specific antibody gives hope to vaccine development
An Osaka Metropolitan University-led team has recently uncovered what could be an important step toward preventing, diagnosing, and treating a species of Campylobacter bacteria.
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NewsStudy reveals the hidden complexity of bacterial biofilms
Research reveals insights into the development of bacterial biofilms, highlighting how these communities adapt to environmental stress through complex interactions between physical and biological processes occurring in the surrounding environment.
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NewsBetter together: Gut microbiome communities’ resilience to drugs
Many human medications can directly inhibit the growth and alter the function of the bacteria that constitute our gut microbiome. EMBL Heidelberg researchers have now discovered that this effect is reduced when bacteria form communities.
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NewsResearchers home in on vaccine target in an ancient scourge
Researchers and doctors have collected one of the most extensive genomic surveys of the syphilis bacterium to date and correlated the genetic data with clinical information about the patients who provided the samples.
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NewsCall for urgent, high-level action to address global scourge of antimicrobial resistance
The World Health Organization (WHO) and partners will call on world leaders to address critical global health challenges throughout the high-level week of the 79th session of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA79).
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NewsGedea Biotech buoyed by results for antibiotic-free treatment for bacterial vaginosis
Women’s health company Gedea Biotech is moving towards approval for its antibiotic-free treatment for bacterial vaginosis following positive results from its NEFERTITI clinical study.
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NewsCosmetic dream is to add beneficial live bacteria to skin products: L’Oreal scientist
The ultimate dream in cosmetic innovation targeting the skin microbiome is to be able to incorporate beneficial live bacteria into skin products, a principal scientist at L’Oreal Research & Innovation has suggested.
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NewsBacteria team with catalysts to recycle waste plastic into useful chemicals
A combination of chemical catalysts and engineered bacteria has been used to convert a mix of common plastic rubbish into a useful product.
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NewsResearchers create ‘Wikipedia of resistant bacteria’ based on 214k microbiome samples
Researchers at DTU in Denmark have created a new tool in the fight against resistant bacteria that, based on 214,000 microbiome samples, can create an overview of the problem across countries, people and environments.
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NewsOral bacteria team up with fungi to form cavity-forming superorganisms
Oral bacteria can join forces with fungi to form cavity-causing “superorganisms” that sprout limblike structures, according to a study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS).
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NewsGenetic sequencing and water sampling ‘key to locating source of Legionnaires’ outbreaks’
Routine sampling of water supplies and genomic sequencing of Legionella bacteria could play a key role in identifying the source of Legionnaires’ disease outbreaks, research suggests.
