Chemists in the College of Arts and Sciences have figured out how to control multiple bacterial behaviors—potentially good news for the treatment of infectious diseases and other bacteria-associated issues, without causing ...
Biochemistry
May 13, 2014
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If the best defense is a good offense, then a preemptive strike to prevent bacteria from sticking to a cell might be the best way to improve treatment for bacterial infections and fight off drug resistant bacteria.
Cell & Microbiology
Mar 10, 2014
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The use of antibiotics is often considered among the most important advances in the treatment of human disease. Unfortunately, though, bacteria are finding ways to make a comeback. According to the Centers for Disease Control, ...
Biochemistry
Feb 20, 2014
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A chemist based at the University of Copenhagen has just taken out a patent for a drug that can make previously multidrug-resistant bacteria once again responsive to antibiotics. Jørn Bolstad and his chemist colleagues hope ...
Biochemistry
Feb 17, 2014
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By sheer strength of numbers, bacteria are by far the most successful life form on Earth. As we've learned over the past several decades of human spaceflight, they don't do too badly in microgravity either. For evidence, ...
Space Exploration
Jan 6, 2014
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Implants are commonly made from metals such as titanium alloys. These materials are being made porous during processing used to prepare them for medical use. Whereas this is important to ensure good contact between the implant ...
Materials Science
Dec 18, 2013
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Using quantitative models of bacterial growth, a team of UC San Diego biophysicists has discovered the bizarre way by which antibiotic resistance allows bacteria to multiply in the presence of antibiotics, a growing health ...
Biotechnology
Nov 28, 2013
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Researchers at McMaster University are addressing the crisis in drug resistance with a novel approach to find new antibiotics.
Biochemistry
Oct 13, 2013
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To stay ahead in the race against drug-resistant infections, scientists constantly search for and exploit vulnerabilities in deadly bacteria. Now, researchers from Brown and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have ...
Biochemistry
Sep 18, 2013
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Biologists at the University of California, San Diego have developed a revolutionary new method for identifying and characterizing antibiotics, an advance that could lead to the discovery of new antibiotics to treat antibiotic ...
Cell & Microbiology
Sep 16, 2013
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