It is well-known that bacteria can support each others' growth and exchange nutrients. Scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology in Jena, Germany, and their colleagues at the universities of Jena, Kaiserslautern, ...
Cell & Microbiology
Feb 23, 2015
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A new study suggests that bacteria may be able to jump between host species far easier than was previously thought. Researchers discovered that a single genetic mutation in a strain of bacteria infectious to humans enables ...
Cell & Microbiology
Feb 17, 2015
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Researchers have successfully isolated three strains of Dehalococcoides—bacteria capable of degrading polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs)—as well as characterizing the three strains to pinpoint the exact genes responsible ...
Biotechnology
Jan 21, 2015
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Antimicrobial peptides are a distinctive class of potent, broad-spectrum antibiotics produced by the body's innate immune system—the first line of defense against disease-causing microbes.
Biochemistry
Dec 16, 2014
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While human families are easily illustrated as a tree, bacterial families look more like a heap of branches. Scientists are trying to trace the connections between those branches in an effort to learn more about the bacteria ...
Cell & Microbiology
Dec 9, 2014
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An international team of bioengineers has boosted the ability of bacteria to produce isopentenol, a compound with desirable gasoline properties. The finding, published in mBio, the online open-access journal of the American ...
Biotechnology
Nov 5, 2014
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Given a critical change in the environment, how exactly, do species adapt? Professor Tom Vogwill and colleagues wanted to get at the heart of this evolutionary question by measuring the growth rates and DNA mutations of 8 ...
Cell & Microbiology
Oct 14, 2014
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For some microbes, the motto for growth is not so much "every cell for itself," but rather, "all for one and one for all."
Cell & Microbiology
Dec 11, 2013
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The division of labor is more efficient than a struggle through life without help from others – this is also true for microorganisms. Researchers from Research Group Experimental Ecology and Evolution at the Max Planck ...
Cell & Microbiology
Dec 2, 2013
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Uzbek microbiologist Dilfuza Egamberdieva, group leader at the National University of Uzbekistan, at Tashkent, has isolated salt-tolerant bacterial strains that live in salt-degraded soils, where they help the rooting process ...
Biotechnology
Oct 7, 2013
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