How zinc starves lethal bacteria to stop infection
(Phys.org) —Australian researchers have found that zinc can 'starve' one of the world's most deadly bacteria by preventing its uptake of an essential metal.
Biochemistry
Nov 11, 2013
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News tagged with streptococcus pneumoniae
Nanoemulsion potent against superbugs that kill cystic fibrosis patients
University of Michigan scientists report highly encouraging evidence that a super-fine oil-and-water emulsion, already shown to kill many other microbes, may be able to quell the ravaging, often drug-resistant infections ...
Bio & Medicine
Feb 4, 2009
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Scientists discover how a bacterial pathogen breaks down barriers to enter and infect cells
Scientists from the Schepens Eye Research Institute, a subsidiary of Mass. Eye and Ear and affiliate of Harvard Medical School, have found for the first time that a bacterial pathogen can literally mow down protective molecules, ...
Cell & Microbiology
Mar 8, 2012
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Researchers uncover protein's job protecting pneumonia-causing pathogen from copper poisoning
(Phys.org)—A team of chemists and biologists led by Indiana University chemistry professor David Giedroc has described a previously unknown function of a protein they now know is responsible for protecting a major bacterial ...
Biochemistry
Jan 29, 2013
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Antibacterial silver nanoparticles are a blast
Writing in the International Journal of Nanoparticles, Rani Pattabi and colleagues at Mangalore University, explain how blasting silver nitrate solution with an electron beam can generate nanoparticles that are more effective ...
Bio & Medicine
May 24, 2010
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New research traces evolutionary path of multidrug-resistant strep bacteria
Despite penicillin and the dozens of antibiotics that followed it, streptococcus bacteria have remained a major threat to health throughout the world. The reason: the superb evolutionary skills of this pathogen to rapidly ...
Biotechnology
Jan 28, 2011
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Antibodies trick bacteria into killing each other
The dominant theory about antibodies is that they directly target and kill disease-causing organisms. In a surprising twist, researchers from the Albert Einstein College of Medicine have discovered that certain antibodies ...
Cell & Microbiology
Nov 14, 2011
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Bacteria poison themselves from within
(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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Developing wet circuits for biology research
You don't have to be an engineer to know that water and electronics don't mix. But if you want to use a sensing circuit to study small-scale features in a community of cells, the electronics must find a way to accommodate ...
Biotechnology
May 26, 2022
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Toxin family binds to sugar receptors on human cells to cause damage
New Griffith University research has found that sugars decorating human cells allow toxins, produced by disease-causing bacteria, to bind to human cells and cause damage or death.
Cell & Microbiology
May 25, 2020
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