Bacteria research opens way for new antibiotics
University of Adelaide researchers have discovered a target for the development of completely new antibiotics against disease-causing bacteria.
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Researchers connect climate change to food safety
Climate change can affect our food safety in a number of ways. In a European study, researchers at Wageningen University and Ghent University (Belgium) state that there is often a relationship between long-term changes in ...
Environment
Mar 6, 2015
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Looking for alternatives to antibiotics
Bacteria that talk to one another and organize themselves into biofilms are more resistant to antibiotics. Researchers are now working to develop drugs that prevent bacteria from communicating.
Cell & Microbiology
Mar 2, 2015
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Scientists turn the tables on drug-resistant bacteria by infecting them with bacteriophages
Every year, drug-resistant infections kill more than 50,000 people across Europe and the United States, and hundreds of thousands more around the world. According to the Review on Antimicrobial Resistance commissioned by ...
Cell & Microbiology
Feb 17, 2015
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Studies show a pathway for imported proteins through cell membrane that can be hijacked by toxins
(Phys.org)—Two teams of researchers have been looking into the ways that toxins can fool cell membranes into gaining access, thereby allowing for human ailments such as cholera. One team describes a pathway that is independent ...
Best of Last Week: Questioning Higgs finding, possible alternative to antibiotics and reversing diabetes in mice
(Phys.org) —It was an interesting week for physics—an international team of researchers openly questioned whether the particle discovered last year was truly the Higgs boson, since as they note, there is no conclusive ...
Using microscopic bugs to save the bees
For decades, honeybees have been battling a deadly disease that kills off their babies (larvae) and leads to hive collapse. It's called American Foulbrood and its effects are so devastating and infectious, it often requires ...
Ecology
Oct 27, 2014
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Bacterial communication considered for medical applications
A local microbiologist has been working on an alternative to antibiotics, which tend to encourage resistant bacterial strains to develop over time.
Cell & Microbiology
Aug 29, 2014
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Researchers simplify process to purify water using seed extracts
Researchers have streamlined and simplified a process that uses extracts from seeds of Moringa oleifa trees to purify water, reducing levels of harmful bacteria by 90% to 99%. The hardy trees that are drought resistant are ...
Cell & Microbiology
Jul 21, 2014
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Researchers find bacteria able to change dormancy time to withstand antibiotic drugs
(Phys.org) —A team of researchers working at the Hebrew University in Israel has found that Escherichia coli grown in a lab were able to change their dormancy period to match the time that antibiotics were administered—saving ...
