Health & Medicine - May 29, 2012 14:37 - 0 Comments

Cholera discovery clears way for new drugs

U. TEXAS-AUSTIN (US) — Scientists have solved the 50-year mystery of how the bacteria that gives humans cholera manages to resist one of our basic innate immune responses. (more…)

Health & Medicine - May 17, 2012 14:22 - 0 Comments

To beat toxic bacteria, break up their party

U. NOTTINGHAM (UK) — Bacteria communicate to decide when they have enough density to produce toxins together effectively—a finding that could help beat infections.

Health & Medicine - May 9, 2012 14:11 - 0 Comments

Bacteria fight ‘dirty’ to disarm antibiotic

U. ILLINOIS (US) — Researchers have discovered how bacteria use a previously unknown means to defeat a potent antibiotic. (more…)

Science & Technology - May 8, 2012 12:12 - 0 Comments

Could bacteria build better computers?

U. LEEDS (UK) — Bacteria that make magnets and wires may someday help build environmentally friendly computers with larger hard drives and faster connections. (more…)

Health & Medicine - Apr 30, 2012 12:18 - 0 Comments

To beat resistant bacteria, let them live

MONASH (AUS) — In the fight against antibiotic resistance, the next strategy may be to disarm the bacteria without actually killing them. (more…)

Health & Medicine - Mar 28, 2012 15:56 - 1 Comment

Build new drugs ‘on demand’ with bacteria

CORNELL (US) — A new method of bacterial cell engineering promises better, cheaper drug therapies than those made from animal cells. (more…)

Health & Medicine - Mar 21, 2012 11:50 - 0 Comments

To beat superbug bacteria, look to frog skin

U. MELBOURNE (AUS) — In search of ways to fight antibiotic-resistant bacteria, scientists are looking to synthetic anti-microbial skin secretions from frogs. (more…)

Science & Technology - Mar 7, 2012 17:10 - 0 Comments

Coffee pest steals genes from gut bacteria

CORNELL (US) — A bacterial gene from a coffee pest’s gut has evidently become a permanent part of the insect’s genome. (more…)

Health & Medicine - Mar 5, 2012 12:42 - 0 Comments

To talk and team up, bacteria get in touch

UC SANTA BARBARA (US) — Bacteria may talk to each other via a sense of touch, and a new study suggests this communication is needed for certain functions. (more…)

Armed with poison daggers, bacteria attack

CALTECH (US) — Some bacteria appear to attack other bacteria by shooting spring-loaded poison molecular daggers. (more…)

Science & Technology - Feb 23, 2012 14:15 - 0 Comments

With hybrid genes, grapevines beat blight

UC DAVIS (US) — With a hybrid gene, grapevines can better defend themselves against Pierce’s disease, which threatens California’s wine industry. (more…)

Health & Medicine - Jan 31, 2012 11:44 - 1 Comment

After 3 days, lung bacteria are unstoppable

UNC-CHAPEL HILL (US) — A deadly plague bacterium is able to transform the lungs into a breeding ground for other microbes—often escaping detection until it is too late for medical treatment. (more…)

Science & Technology - Jan 24, 2012 12:44 - 1 Comment

Icy microbes make case for life on Mars

PENN STATE (US) — The bottom of a glacier is not the most hospitable place on Earth, but at least two types of bacteria happily live there, according to researchers. (more…)

Earth & Environment - Jan 18, 2012 12:08 - 0 Comments

Bitter orange trees taste yucky to bugs

CORNELL (US) — Orange trees engineered to leave a bitter taste in the mouths of bugs may protect Florida’s $9 billion citrus industry from a deadly bacterial disease. (more…)

Science & Technology - Jan 18, 2012 9:28 - 0 Comments

Fed antibiotics, pigs carry resistant bugs

MICHIGAN STATE (US) — Antibiotics in pig feed increase the number of antibiotic resistant genes in gastrointestinal microbes in pigs, say researchers. (more…)

Health & Medicine - Jan 16, 2012 11:29 - 2 Comments

Gut bacteria ‘biome’ differs in obese people

U. WASHINGTON (US) — For the first time, the vast array of bacteria in the human gut has been studied as a complex, integrated biological system, rather than a set of separate species. (more…)

Earth & Environment - Jan 10, 2012 17:02 - 0 Comments

Gulf ‘swirl’ key to recovery after oil spill

UC SANTA BARBARA (US) — A new computer model shows how bacteria, topography, and water currents combined to remove methane and other chemicals from the Gulf of Mexico following the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in April 2010. (more…)

Health & Medicine - Jan 6, 2012 13:15 - 1 Comment

Compound halts foodborne bugs

CORNELL (US) — Researchers have found a compound that is safe for mammals but stops the foodborne bacteria Listeria in its tracks. (more…)

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