Xanthomonas citri, the bacterium that causes citrus canker, a disease responsible for major damage to lemon and orange groves in worldwide scale, has a veritable arsenal of weapons to overcome constant competition with other ...
Cell & Microbiology
May 25, 2018
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In the fifties, geneticists were faced with a mystery: when two strains of the same fruit fly species (Drosophila) crossed, they only produced female flies instead of the expected 50:50 sex ratio. At first, scientists thought ...
Plants & Animals
May 3, 2018
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Sewage treatment may be an unglamorous job, but bacteria are happy to do it. Sewage plants rely on bacteria to remove environmental toxins from waste so that the processed water can be safely discharged into oceans and rivers.
Environment
Apr 11, 2018
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Oil spills and their impact on the environment are a source of concern for scientists. These disasters occur on a regular basis, leading to messy decontamination challenges that require massive investments of time and resources. ...
Biochemistry
Apr 10, 2018
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Beta-lactam antibiotics, including penicillin, are one of the most widely used classes of antibiotics in the world. Though they've been in use since the 1940s, scientists still don't fully understand what happens when this ...
Biochemistry
Apr 9, 2018
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Researchers experimenting with live zebrafish witnessed a 200-percent increase in the strength of intestinal contractions soon after exposure to the cholera-causing bacterium Vibrio cholerae, leading to expulsion of native ...
Cell & Microbiology
Apr 3, 2018
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A common soil bacterium may hold the key to preserving the germ-killing power of penicillin. U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) scientists in Peoria, Illinois, helped mass produce the antibiotic during World War II to ...
Cell & Microbiology
Mar 30, 2018
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Researchers around the globe have increasingly been using a bacterial defence mechanism called CRISPR-Cas9 as a tool to surgically edit DNA in living cells. This new technique has made gene editing a lot easier and more precise. ...
Biotechnology
Mar 29, 2018
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Researchers at University of Stavanger have brought us one step closer to solving the fundamental question how plants build the photosynthetic machinery.
Biotechnology
Mar 27, 2018
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Bacteria produce proteins to take out specific competitors. One of these proteins can kill the hospital bacterium pseudomonas aeruginosa. Microbial geneticists at KU Leuven, Belgium, have unraveled how this protein launches ...
Cell & Microbiology
Mar 20, 2018
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