All Bacteria articles – Page 75
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Careers
I was transformed into a cartoon scientist honey bee!
Professor Les Baillie of Cardiff University has had a few unique experiences as a microbiologist, but becoming one of the stars of Betsy and Bertie Save The Bees is one that earned particular kudos from his granddaughter.
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News
Academic-private partnership aims to reduce toxic effects of deadly C. diff
The Center for One Health Research and Nectagen Inc. have received a nearly $275,000 grant to study whether synthetic proteins developed by Nectagen can reduce the toxicity of the digestive bacterium.
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Synthetic antibiotic could be effective against drug-resistant superbugs
Researchers have found a new antibiotic strategy to defeat gram-negative bacteria like Salmonella, Pseudomonas and E. coli, making use of a synthetic molecule that works fast and is durable in animal tests.
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Engineered probiotic developed to treat multiple sclerosis
Researchers are working on a new approach to target autoimmunity in the brain, leveraging designer bacteria to make treatment safer and more effective.
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Booster shot being developed to fight koala Chlamydia
Researchers are developing a booster vaccine using implant technology in the fight against the deadly Chlamydia disease that has decimated koala colonies.
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Researchers find chink in the armour of tuberculosis pathogen
Discovery of drug resistance network could clear way for developing a drug to prevent pathogen from resisting and tolerating tuberculosis treatment.
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AMR poses threat in all 35 countries in the Americas
569,000 deaths were linked to bacterial antimicrobial resistance in all 35 countries of the WHO Region of the Americas, according to a new study.
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Egyptian cotton gene grants powerful resistance to resurging blight
An overlooked gene found in Egyptian cotton confers powerful resistance to bacterial blight, a plant disease that is threatening cotton production worldwide.
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Cyanobacteria can ‘grow’ stronger sand-based construction materials
Researchers have successfully grown bacterial cells in potential sand-based construction materials, according to a study charting the novel development of an additive co-fabrication manufacturing process.
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Bacterial circadian clocks show astonishing complexity
An international collaboration has discovered bacterial circadian clocks are widely found in the soil bacterium Bacillus subtilis.
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High diversity of cell appendages found in hospital superbug
Bioinformaticians have detected an unexpectedly wide diversity of certain cell appendages in hospital pathogen Acinetobacter baumannii that are associated with pathogenicity.
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Parasites of viruses drive superbug evolution
Researchers have discovered a previously unknown mechanism by which bacteria share their genetic material through virus parasites.
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Features
Antimicrobial resistance and phage therapy in India
The story that led to the formation of Vitalis Phage Therapy - the first of its kind initiative to establish frameworks for phage therapy in India.
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News
Vaginal health bacterium offers a choice of strains for probiotic therapy
Different strains of a bacterium known as a determinant of vaginal health show a variety of colonising abilities and may offer a wider range of options for potential antimicrobial therapy.
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Beneficial gut bacterium can be made oxygen-tolerant
One of the beneficial gut bacteria residing in the human gut, which normally cannot survive in an environment with oxygen, can now be made oxygen-tolerant.
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Fatty acids govern cannibalism in beneficial rhizosphere bacterium
A new study reveals that bacillunoic acids-mediated cannibalism enhances biofilm formation in Bacillus velezensis SQR9.
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Host-to-host microbe transmission impacts bacterial evolution in the gut
A new study uncovers a significant role for bacterial transmission across hosts in shaping the adaptive evolution of new strains that colonize gut microbiomes.
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Engineered microbe targets fungal scourge of golf courses
A patented beneficial microbe is found to be promising for disarming fungal pathogens that affect turfgrass.
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Researchers discover method to overcome antimicrobial resistance
Scientists have found a new class of molecules that inhibit the efflux pump of a bacterial cell.
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Study demonstrates efficacy of new short-term resistant TB treatment
Four patients at Boston Medical Center (BMC) Tuberculosis Clinic were cured of MDR TB with a six-month regimen that included bedaquiline, pretomanid and linezolid (BPaL).