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New, more effective nisin antibiotics combat superbugs and food diseases

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Mar 31, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Researchers at University College Cork have used bioengineering to produce a new generation of natural antibiotics that target harmful micro-organisms such as MRSA and the food-borne pathogen, Listeria monocytogenes.





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'Superbug' breast infections controllable in nursing mothers, researchers find

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Aug 31, 2008 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Many nursing mothers who have been hospitalized for breast abscesses are afflicted with the "superbug" methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, or MRSA, but according to new research by UT Southwestern Medical Center ...


Milk may help bacteria survive against low levels of antibiotics

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created Sep 08, 2008 | popularity 4 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Milk may help prevent potentially dangerous bacteria like Staphylococcus from being killed by antibiotics used to treat animals, scientists heard today at the Society for General Microbiology's Autumn meeting being held this ...


How probiotics can prevent disease

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Apr 02, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Using probiotics successfully against a number of animal diseases has helped scientists from University College Cork, Ireland to understand some of the ways in which they work, which could lead to them using probiotics to ...


Bovine tuberculosis in wildlife threatens endangered lynx and cattle health

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created Jul 23, 2008 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

In an epidemiological survey of Spain's Dońana National Park, the findings of which are published on July 23 in the journal PLoS ONE, Christian Gortázar and colleagues studied the prevalence of bovine tuberculosis (bovin ...


Test to protect food chain from human form of Mad Cow Disease

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created Aug 11, 2008 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (7) | comments 0

Scientists are reporting development of the first test for instantly detecting beef that has been contaminated with tissue from a cow's brain or spinal cord during slaughter — an advance in protecting against possible spread ...


A novel approach in the molecular differentiation of prion strains

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created Aug 29, 2008 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

A team from the French Food Safety Agency, Lyon, France, has identified a prion protein characteristic that is unique to some natural but unusual sheep scrapie cases. This finding, reported August 29th in the open-access ...


What makes a cow a cow? Genome sequence sheds light on ruminant evolution

What makes a cow a cow? Complete bovine genome sequenced

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Apr 23, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 1

Researchers report today in the journal Science that they have sequenced the bovine genome, for the first time revealing the genetic features that distinguish cattle from humans and other mammals.


Scientists discover dangerous new method for bacterial toxin transfer

Medicine & Health / Research

created Jan 06, 2009 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Scientists have discovered a new way for bacteria to transfer toxic genes to unrelated bacterial species, a finding that raises the unsettling possibility that bacterial swapping of toxins and other disease-aiding factors ...


Big cattle -- the genes that determine carcass weight

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created Aug 04, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

An area of chromosome 6 that affects cattle carcass weight has been identified using two different Japanese species. Knowledge of this four-gene region, described in the open access journal BMC Genetics, should be useful ...


Farmed fish may pose risk for mad cow disease

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created Jun 16, 2009 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (4) | comments 1

University of Louisville neurologist Robert P. Friedland, M.D., questions the safety of eating farmed fish in the June issue of the Journal of Alzheimer's Disease, adding a new worry to concerns about the nation's food s ...



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