Crafting high-quality artisanal cheese is not complicated, but it's also not easy. Basically, heat a lot of milk, add bacterial cultures and enzymes to thicken it into a curd, drain it, salt it, and let it ferment and age. ...
Other
Dec 17, 2012
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A new study by researchers at Imperial College London has identified a way in which Salmonella bacteria, which cause gastroenteritis and typhoid fever, counteract the defence mechanisms of human cells.
Cell & Microbiology
Nov 15, 2012
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(Phys.org)—What if you could take greenhouse gas and convert it to fuel for an energy-hungry world?
Biochemistry
Nov 13, 2012
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One can often begin to understand a protein's function by identifying its accomplices in the cell. Accordingly, scientists have developed diverse biochemical assays that essentially allow them to go 'fishing' for interaction ...
Cell & Microbiology
Oct 10, 2012
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Next week's Journal of Biological Chemistry "Paper of the Week" by Wai Mun Huang and colleagues at the University of Utah Health Sciences Center and the University of Minnesota reveals new insights into the molecular properties ...
Biochemistry
Jul 11, 2012
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(Phys.org) -- Genetic engineers and genomics researchers should welcome the news from the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) where an international team of scientists has discovered a new and possibly more ...
Cell & Microbiology
Jun 28, 2012
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Researchers at the RIKEN SPring-8 Center in Harima, Japan, have clarified the crystal structure of quinol dependent nitric oxide reductase (qNOR), a bacterial enzyme that offers clues on the origins of our earliest oxygen-breathing ...
Biochemistry
Jan 22, 2012
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Colorado State University researchers have discovered an enzyme that is critical to the survival and replication of the bacterial pathogen that causes tuberculosis. The enzyme may become a key target for ...
Biochemistry
Nov 21, 2011
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(PhysOrg.com) -- University of Waikato researchers have managed to create a billion-year-old bacterial enzyme and then trace its evolution through history, to the modern day.
Cell & Microbiology
Nov 1, 2011
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A recent study into the interactions between aminoglycoside antibiotics and their target site in bacteria used computer simulations to elucidate this mechanism and thereby suggest drug modifications.
Cell & Microbiology
Jul 21, 2011
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