Scientists from A*STAR's Genome Institute of Singapore (GIS) have discovered how Carbapenemase-producing Enterobacteriaceae (CPE)—a multi-drug-resistant bacteria—hides among gut bacterial communities in asymptomatic human ...
Cell & Microbiology
Oct 3, 2022
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University of Virginia School of Medicine researchers and their collaborators have solved a decades-old mystery about how E. coli and other bacteria are able to move.
Cell & Microbiology
Sep 27, 2022
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Antimicrobial resistance in gut bacteria is constantly being detected on poultry farms and in poultry retail products worldwide, including in turkey flocks. Concerningly, surveillance information and studies on the associations ...
Cell & Microbiology
Sep 14, 2022
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Osaka Metropolitan University scientists have developed a simple, rapid method to simultaneously identify multiple food poisoning bacteria, based on color differences in the scattered light by nanometer-scaled organic metal ...
Biochemistry
Aug 29, 2022
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A team of researchers with members affiliated with several institutions in Japan has learned more about the process involved in the development of natural symbiotic relationships by engineering an artificial one between E. ...
How do a wide variety of bacteria—both pathogenic and commensal—survive antimicrobials released by the mammalian innate immune system?
Biochemistry
Aug 10, 2022
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Antibiotic-resistant bacteria are making it increasingly difficult to combat many infections. And types of bacteria classified as "Gram-negative"—which refers to the Gram staining method used to differentiate bacteria—are ...
Cell & Microbiology
Aug 10, 2022
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Scientists have long tried to introduce genetically engineered bacteria into the gut to treat diseases. In the past, these attempts have focused on engineering common lab strains of E. coli, which cannot compete with the ...
Cell & Microbiology
Aug 4, 2022
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If you want to track a person's activities for a day, you could call them up every ten minutes and ask what they're doing. Easier, though, would be to provide them with a journal to log their own actions. Scientists often ...
Biotechnology
Jul 28, 2022
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Patients who have indwelling urinary catheters often suffer from urinary tract infections, which can be difficult to treat. Now, researchers at Karolinska Institutet have discovered that the synthetic peptide CD4-PP has a ...
Cell & Microbiology
Jul 22, 2022
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