Researchers at the University Hospital Bonn (UKB), the University of Bonn, and the German Center for Infection Research (DZIF) have discovered a new lantibiotic, namely epilancin A37. It is produced by staphylococci that ...
Cell & Microbiology
Apr 29, 2024
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Venom is associated with being harmful, but red imported fire ants are using their venom for its medicinal benefits by sharing the toxic substance with their nestmates, according to a study published in the Journal of Insect ...
Plants & Animals
Dec 7, 2022
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Optical chip-related technology is the inevitable path to retain the validity of Moore's Law, which has become the consensus of academia and industry; it can effectively solve the speed and power consumption problems of electronic ...
Optics & Photonics
Jan 15, 2024
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LMU researchers have discovered a weakness in the bacterium Helicobacter pylori, which could be exploited to develop new drugs.
Cell & Microbiology
Apr 26, 2023
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Carbon markets and related international schemes that allow payments to landholders for planting trees, sometimes called carbon farming, are intended to support sequestration of carbon from the atmosphere. But they will have ...
Environment
Sep 13, 2013
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Facebook said it was buying a startup specializing in powering mobile applications as part of its drive to make the social network friendlier to smartphones and tablet computers.
Internet
Apr 26, 2013
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An antibiotic candidate compound shelved in the 1970s in favour of more promising drugs could be worth a second look, new research has found.
Biochemistry
Dec 14, 2017
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Infections by microbes like bacteria and fungi that don't respond to available antimicrobial treatments pose an increasingly dangerous public health threat around the world. In the United States alone, such infections kill ...
Biotechnology
Apr 3, 2018
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Researchers confirmed the presence in the wild of Candida auris, a multidrug-resistant fungus commonly found infesting hospitals. The findings could provide scientists insights into a pathogen that threatens inpatients, including ...
Cell & Microbiology
Apr 14, 2021
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Scientists at Tufts University School of Medicine have developed a genome-scale metabolic model or "subway map" of key metabolic activities of the bacterium that causes Lyme disease. Using this map, they have successfully ...
Cell & Microbiology
Oct 19, 2023
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