News tagged with healthy bacteria

Scientists reveal how bacteria build homes inside healthy cells

(PhysOrg.com) -- Bacteria are able to build camouflaged homes for themselves inside healthy cells - and cause disease - by manipulating a natural cellular process.

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Dec 20, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Researchers develop environmentally friendly process to improve storage stability of probiotics

Probiotic bacteria are rapidly gaining ground as healthy food supplements. However, the production of this "functional food" has its pitfalls: only few probiotic bacterial strains are robust enough to survive conventional ...

Biology / Biotechnology

created Jul 06, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Eating right, not supplements, is best at keeping your good bacteria healthy, dietitian says

Healthy eating, not supplements, is the best way to keep the good bacteria in your gut healthy, says a dietitian and researcher.

Medicine & Health / Health

created Oct 21, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0




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Secrets of immune response illuminated in new study

When disease-causing invaders like bacteria infect a human host, cells of various types swing into action, coordinating their activities to address the threat.

Medicine & Health / Research

created Feb 09, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Preventing bacteria from falling in with the wrong crowd could help stop gum disease

Stripping some mouth bacteria of their access key to gangs of other pathogenic oral bacteria could help prevent gum disease and tooth loss. The study, published in the journal Microbiology suggests that t ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Feb 08, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Straight from the gut: Microbes can cause obesity

(Medical Xpress) -- Obesity and chronic liver disease can be triggered by a family of proteins that alter populations of microbes in the stomach, a discovery that suggests the condition may be infectious, ...

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created Feb 05, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Scientist warns of new MRSA threat

(Medical Xpress) -- An MRSA expert from the University’s Department of Biology & Biochemistry has warned that a new, more toxic strain of the disease poses a serious threat to people in Britain as it ...

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Feb 02, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Maine girl bouncing back after 6-organ transplant

(AP) -- A 9-year-old Maine girl is home from a Boston hospital healthy, active and with high hopes - and a new stomach, liver, spleen, small intestine, pancreas, and part of an esophagus to replace the ones ...

Medicine & Health / Other

created Feb 02, 2012 | popularity 3 / 5 (3) | comments 1

New probiotic bacteria shows promise for use in shellfish aquaculture

The use of probiotic bacteria, isolated from naturally-occurring bacterial communities, is gaining in popularity in the aquaculture industry as the preferred, environmentally-friendly management alternative to the use of ...

Biology / Ecology

created Jan 30, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Dealing with stress: New research highlights the survival skills of disease-causing E. coli

Escherichia coli bacteria thrive in the lower intestine of humans and other animals, including birds. Most are vital constituents of the healthy gut flora, but certain forms of E. coli cause a range of di ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Jan 30, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Study points to therapy for radiation sickness

(Medical Xpress) -- A combination of two drugs may alleviate radiation sickness in people who have been exposed to high levels of radiation, even when the therapy is given a day after the exposure occurred, according to a ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Jan 25, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Hearty bacteria help make case for life in the extreme

(PhysOrg.com) -- 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.

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Jan 19, 2012 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (4) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Bacterial toxin may play important role in acute, chronic urinary tract infections

Researchers from the University of Utah have identified a process by which the most common types of urinary tract infection-causing bacteria are able to trigger bladder cell shedding and disable immune responses. According ...

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created Jan 18, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast


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