News tagged with bacteriology
Like humans, ants use bacteria to make their gardens grow
Nov 19, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Leaf-cutter ants, which cultivate fungus for food, have many remarkable qualities.
Mystery E. coli genes essential for survival of many species
Jul 13, 2009 |
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Scientists have shown that E. coli - one of the best known and extensively studied organisms in the world - remains an enigma that may hold the key to human diseases, such as cancer.
Sequencing effort to chart ants and their ecosystem
Jun 26, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Nestled within the twisting fungus gardens of leaf-cutter ants exists a complex symbiotic web that has evolved over millions of years. Now, with the help of a major genomic sequencing grant ...
New technique used to profile anthrax genome
Mar 20, 2009 |
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Scientists at the Georgia Institute of Technology have used a new approach, known as RNA-Seq, to profile the gene expression of the bacterium that causes anthrax, Bacillus anthracis. Their study, published ...
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Cholera bacteria show adaptability to changing environments
Dec 08, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The deadly bacterium behind cholera epidemics spends only a fraction of its life infecting humans. Most of the time, Vibrio cholerae lurks in estuaries and other semisalty aquatic habitats.
Scientists gain new understanding of disease-causing bacteria
Nov 30, 2009 |
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A team of scientists from The Forsyth Institute, the University of Connecticut Health Center, the CDC and the Wadsworth Center, have used state-of-the-art technology to elucidate the molecular architecture of Treponema pallidum, ...
C. difficile spores spread superbug
Jul 20, 2009 |
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New research suggests that antibiotic treatment could be asymptomatically inducing the transmission of the healthcare-acquired infection, C. difficile, contributing to the outbreaks that have recently been widely reported in hos ...
Scientists sequence genome of the N2-fixing, soil-living bacterium Azotobacter vinelandii
Jun 17, 2009 |
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A collaboration of researchers, which includes scientists at the Virginia Bioinformatics Institute (VBI) and Virginia Tech, have completed the genome sequence of Azotobacter vinelandii, uncovering important genetic inform ...
Newly discovered reactions from an old drug may lead to new antibiotics
Jun 01, 2009 |
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A mineral found at health food stores could be the key to developing a new line of antibiotics for bacteria that commonly cause diarrhea, tooth decay and, in some severe cases, death.
Breakthrough in the treatment of bacterial meningitis
May 13, 2009 |
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It can take just hours after the symptoms appear for someone to die from bacterial meningitis. Now, after years of research, experts at The University of Nottingham have finally discovered how the deadly meningococcal bacteria ...
Evolutionary origin of bacterial chromosomes revealed
Mar 26, 2009 |
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Researchers have unveiled the evolutionary origin of the different chromosomal architectures found in three species of Agrobacterium. A comprehensive comparison of the Agrobacterium sequence information with the genome sequences ...
Genes involved in antibiotic resistance vary within a species
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Dec 16, 2008 |
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The recent emergence of multidrug resistance (MDR) in Acinetobacter baumannii, a bacteria that causes infections primarily among seriously ill patients in the intensive care unit who may have reduced immune systems, has ra ...
UW tackles neglected realm of training for science professors in training
Nov 27, 2008 |
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U.S. science and engineering students emerge from graduate school exquisitely trained to carry out research. Yet when it comes to the other major activity they'll engage in as professors – teaching – they're usually left ...
Bacterial pneumonia caused most deaths in 1918 influenza pandemic
Aug 19, 2008 |
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The majority of deaths during the influenza pandemic of 1918-1919 were not caused by the influenza virus acting alone, report researchers from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the ...
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