News tagged with bacterial enzyme
Chemical Additive Could Make Old Antibiotics Viable Against Antibiotic-Resistant Bugs
Sep 10, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A Texas Tech researcher said a recently patented chemical additive could break down the shield of certain types of antibiotic-resistant bacteria.
Antibiotic multiresistance: why bacteria are so effective
May 25, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- In an article due to be published in Science, teams from the Institut Pasteurand the University of Limoges, associated with the CNRS and Inserm, decipherfor the first time the molecular mechanism that enable ...
Einstein researchers develop novel antibiotics that don't trigger resistance
Mar 13, 2009 |
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Bacterial resistance to antibiotics is one of medicine's most vexing challenges. In a study described in Nature Chemical Biology, researchers from Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University are de ...
Commercial yeasts upgraded with an enzyme for biofuel production
Feb 24, 2009 |
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Eckhard Boles, co-founder of the Swiss biofuel company Butalco GmbH and a professor at Goethe-University in Frankfurt, Germany, has discovered a new enzyme which teaches yeast cells to ferment xylose into ethanol. Xylose ...
Experimental TB drug explodes bacteria from the inside out
Medicine & Health / Medications
Nov 27, 2008 |
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An international team of biochemists has discovered how an experimental drug unleashes its destructive force inside the bacteria that cause tuberculosis (TB). The finding could help scientists develop ways to treat dormant ...
