Scientists at The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) have devised a new antibiotic based on vancomycin that is powerfully effective against vancomycin-resistant strains of MRSA and other disease-causing bacteria.
Biochemistry
Sep 17, 2014
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Scientists at the University of East Anglia have made a breakthrough in the race to solve antibiotic resistance.
Cell & Microbiology
Jun 18, 2014
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(Phys.org) —The next time you stop and smell the roses, thank MED18. The protein MED18 controls many important plant processes, including when a plant blossoms, how it resists key fungal diseases, and how it responds to ...
Biotechnology
Feb 5, 2014
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(Phys.org) —Resistance of tumor cells toward multiple cytostatic drugs is a serious problem in cancer treatment. In the journal Angewandte Chemie, a team of Chinese and American researchers has now introduced a new approach ...
Biochemistry
Jan 22, 2014
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Scientists have made an important advance in understanding how a subset of bacterial cells escape being killed by many antibiotics.
Cell & Microbiology
Jan 9, 2014
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(Phys.org) —Molecular biologists at the University of Wyoming have found a molecular mechanism that allows myxobacteria to recognize related strains that lead to the transient fusion of their outer membranes to exchange ...
Cell & Microbiology
Nov 13, 2013
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(Phys.org) —University of Notre Dame researchers Shahriar Mobashery and Mayland Chang and their collaborators in Spain have published research results this week that show how methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus ...
Biochemistry
Oct 4, 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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Researchers at MIT have found a way to detect early-stage malarial infection of blood cells by measuring changes in the infected cells' electrical properties.
Biochemistry
Aug 16, 2013
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(Phys.org) —Transposons are DNA elements that can multiply and change their location within an organism's genome. Discovered in the 1940s, for years they were thought to be unimportant and were called "junk DNA." Also ...
Biotechnology
Aug 15, 2013
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