Bacteria

  • Researchers Discover How Bacteria Talk to Each Other and Our Cells
    Bacteria can talk to each other via molecules that they themselves produce. The phenomenon is called quorum sensing, and is important when an infection propagates. Now, researchers at Linköping University in Sweden are showing how bacteria control processes in human cells ...More
    November 6, 2012
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  • Microban Research Finds Nearly 5 Million Bacteria on Single Wet Razor Handle
    Nearly 5 million bacteria have been found on a single disposable wet razor handle in new laboratory research by Microban. As comparisons, typical levels of bacteria on household objects include 50 colony forming units per square inch on a computer mouse, 214 on microwave ...More
    October 25, 2012
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  • Filming Bacterial Life in Multicolor is a New Diagnostic and Antibiotic Discovery Tool
    An international team of scientists led by Indiana University chemist Michael S. VanNieuwenhze and biologist Yves Brun has discovered a revolutionary new method for coloring the cell wall of bacterial cells to determine how they grow, in turn providing a new, much-needed ...More
    October 11, 2012
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  • Viruses Help Scientists Battle Pathogenic Bacteria and Improve Water Supply
    Infectious bacteria received a taste of their own medicine from University of Missouri researchers who used viruses to infect and kill colonies of Pseudomonas aeruginosa, common disease-causing bacteria. The viruses, known as bacteriophages, could be used to efficiently ...More
    September 24, 2012
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  • X-rays Reveal the Self-Defense Mechanisms of Bacteria
    A research group at Aarhus University has gained unique insight into how bacteria control the amount of toxin in their cells. The new findings can eventually lead to the development of novel forms of treatment for bacterial infections. Many pathogenic bacteria are able to ...More
    September 14, 2012
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  • Sinusitis Linked to Microbial Diversity
    A common bacteria ever-present on the human skin and previously considered harmless, may, in fact, be the culprit behind chronic sinusitis, a painful, recurring swelling of the sinuses that strikes more than 1 in 10 Americans each year, according to a study by scientists at ...More
    September 12, 2012
    Posted in News
  • Human and Soil Bacteria Swap Antibiotic-Resistance Genes
    Soil bacteria and bacteria that cause human diseases have recently swapped at least seven antibiotic-resistance genes, researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis report in the Aug. 31, 2012 issue of Science. According to the scientists, more ...More
    August 30, 2012
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  • Researchers Discover Way to Tame Antibiotic Resistant Superbugs
    Rather than trying to kill bacteria outright with drugs, Université de Montréal researchers have discovered a way to disarm bacteria that may allow the body's own defense mechanisms to destroy them. "To understand this strategy one could imagine harmful bacteria being like ...More
    August 23, 2012
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  • Dysentery-Causing Bacteria Spreading from Europe to Australia
    Researchers have found that a strain of dysentery-causing bacterium that originated from Europe centuries ago is spreading rapidly to Australia and some developing countries. First author Dr. Kathryn Holt, from the University of Melbourne, says that the bacterium strain ...More
    August 7, 2012
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  • Beneficial Bacteria May Help Ward Off Infection
    While many bacteria exist as aggressive pathogens, causing diseases ranging from tuberculosis and cholera, to plague, diphtheria and toxic shock syndrome, others play a less malevolent role and some are critical for human health. ...More
    July 20, 2012
    Posted in News
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