News tagged with escherichia coli
Biologists discover bacterial defense mechanism against aggressive oxygen
Nov 20, 2009 |
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Bacteria possess an ingenious mechanism for preventing oxygen from harming the building blocks of the cell. This is the new finding of a team of biologists that includes Joris Messens of VIB, a life sciences research institute ...
Sweet as can be: How E. coli gets ahead
Nov 12, 2009 |
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Scientists at the University of York have discovered how certain bacteria such as Escherichia coli have evolved to capture rare sugars from their environment giving them an evolutionary advantage in naturally competitive enviro ...
Team finds a better way to watch bacteria swim
Oct 04, 2009 |
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Researchers have developed a new method for studying bacterial swimming, one that allows them to trap Escherichia coli bacteria and modify the microbes' environment without hindering the way they move.
Understanding a cell's split personality aids synthetic circuits (w/ Video)
Oct 04, 2009 |
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As scientists work toward making genetically altered bacteria create living "circuits" to produce a myriad of useful proteins and chemicals, they have logically assumed that the single-celled organisms would always respond ...
Scientists get detailed glimpse of chemoreceptor architecture in bacterial cells
Sep 24, 2009 |
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Using state-of-the-art electron microscopy techniques, a team led by researchers from Caltech has for the first time visualized and described the precise arrangement of chemoreceptors—the receptors that sense ...
Disease-causing Escherichia coli: 'I will survive'
Sep 09, 2009 |
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Strains of Escherichia coli bacteria that cause food poisoning have been shown to have marked differences in the numbers of genes they carry compared to laboratory strains of E. coli. Some of these genes may enable them t ...
Genetically engineered bacteria compute the route
Jul 24, 2009 |
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US researchers have created 'bacterial computers' with the potential to solve complicated mathematics problems. The findings of the research, published in BioMed Central's open access Journal of Biological Engineering, demons ...
Research could lead to new non-antibiotic drugs to counter hospital infections
Apr 09, 2009 |
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Lack of an adequate amount of the mineral phosphate can turn a common bacterium into a killer, according to research to be published in the April 14, 2009, issue of the Proceedings of the National Academies of ...
Light-activated antibacterial coating is new weapon in fight against hospital-acquired infections
Mar 31, 2009 |
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A new hard coating with antibacterial properties that has been tested by researchers at the UCL Eastman Dental Institute has been shown to kill 99.9% of Escherichia coli bacteria when a white hospital light was shone on its ...
When intestinal bacteria go surfing
Mar 19, 2009 |
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The bacterium Escherichia coli is part of the healthy human intestinal flora. However, E. coli also has pathogenic relatives that trigger diarrhea illnesses: enterohemorrhagic E.coli bacteria. During the course of an inf ...
Bacteria in urinary tract infections caught making burglar's tools
Feb 20, 2009 |
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Bacteria that cause urinary tract infections (UTIs) make more tools for stealing from their host than friendly versions of the same bacteria found in the gut, researchers at Washington University School of ...
