Changing the surface chemistry of electrodes leads to the preferential growth of a novel electroactive bacterium that could support improved energy-neutral wastewater treatment.
Biochemistry
Oct 19, 2020
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More than half of the world's population carries the bacterium Helicobacter pylori in their stomach mucosa. It often causes no problems throughout life, but sometimes it can cause inflammation, and in some cases, it can even ...
Cell & Microbiology
Oct 15, 2020
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The novel phosphodiesterase enzyme, discovered by a team from Newcastle University, UK, is used by bacteria to unstick themselves from seaweed. The bacteria release an enzyme which breaks down the sticky molecules, naturally ...
Biochemistry
Sep 8, 2020
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Methane-eating bacteria can degrade ammonium in addition to methane, as discovered by microbiologists at Radboud University and the Max Planck Institute in Bremen. Methane-eaters are important for the reduction of greenhouses ...
Cell & Microbiology
Sep 7, 2020
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The bacterium Helicobacter pylori is linked to increased risk of stomach cancer, and is genetically highly variable. A new study by researchers of Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet (LMU) in Munich explores the role played by ...
Cell & Microbiology
Sep 2, 2020
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Research by INRS (Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique) Professor Salim Timo Islam and his Ph.D. student Fares Saïdi has recently revealed that multicellular physiology in the social bacterium Myxococcus xanthus—a ...
Cell & Microbiology
Aug 12, 2020
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The tuberculosis bacterium has been around as long as mankind has.
Cell & Microbiology
Aug 6, 2020
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Professor Juan José Quereda Torres at the Faculty of Veterinary Studies of the CEU Cardenal Herrera University of Valencia, has just published the results of his study into the infectious process of the Listeria monocytogenes ...
Cell & Microbiology
Jul 6, 2020
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For the first time, scientists have shown that the bacterium that causes the tick-borne disease anaplasmosis interferes with tick gene expression for its survival inside cells and to spread to a new vertebrate host. Girish ...
Biotechnology
Jul 2, 2020
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The team of Professor Tobias Bollenbach from the Institute for Biological Physics at the University of Cologne has published a study on a new approach to improving the effectiveness of antibiotics in bacterial infections. ...
Evolution
Jun 24, 2020
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