Even bacteria have a kind of "immune system" they use to defend themselves against unwanted intruders – in their case, viruses. Scientists at the Helmholtz Center for Infection Research (HZI) in Braunschweig, Germany, were ...
Cell & Microbiology
Apr 30, 2013
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Using nanoscale materials, researchers at the University of Georgia have developed a single-step method to rapidly and accurately detect viruses, bacteria and chemical contaminants.
Analytical Chemistry
Jul 19, 2012
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Washington State University researchers have developed a portable biosensor that makes it easier to detect harmful bacteria.
Analytical Chemistry
Jun 14, 2016
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Researchers show how bacteria have adapted a sensing mechanism that allows them to live in different environments.
Biotechnology
Mar 22, 2021
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The findings, published in the journal Science today, demonstrate how integrating vertical descent and horizontal gene transfer can be used to infer the root of the bacterial tree and the nature of the last bacterial common ...
Evolution
May 6, 2021
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Researchers at Harvard Medical School, the University of California, San Francisco, and the University of Georgia have described how the protein that allows strep and staph bacteria to stick to human cells is prepared and ...
Biochemistry
Apr 6, 2018
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Antibiotic-resistant bacteria have been emerging at an alarming rate. In some of the scariest of these pathogens, the mechanism responsible for the bacteria's ability to defeat antibiotics is a complex protein molecule embedded ...
Cell & Microbiology
Jul 18, 2013
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Reptiles are bred in captivity primarily for their skins, but some restaurants and population groups also want them for their meat. A study shows that eating these animals can have side effects that call into question the ...
Cell & Microbiology
Feb 9, 2010
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The research group led by Anton Meinhart at the Max Planck Institute for Medical Research in Heidelberg has shown that proteins from the zeta toxin group trigger a self-destructive mechanism in bacteria. ...
Cell & Microbiology
Mar 23, 2011
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Central to understanding why bacteria become antibiotic resistant is knowing how bacteria respond to the drugs trying to kill them. In a new study, Boston College researchers report that antibiotics disrupt the genetic defensive ...
Cell & Microbiology
Aug 15, 2017
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