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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.


'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 ...





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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 ...


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 ...


Virus Enzymes Could Promote Human, Animal Health

Virus Enzymes Could Promote Human, Animal Health

Biology / Biotechnology

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

(PhysOrg.com) -- Could viruses be good for you? Scientists with the Agricultural Research Service (ARS) have shown that enzymes from bacteria-infecting viruses known as phages could have beneficial applications ...


Promising candidate protein for cancer prevention vaccines found

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Aug 04, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 2

Researchers at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine have learned that some healthy people naturally developed an immune response against a protein that is made in excess levels in many cancers, including breast, ...


Early cessation of breastfeeding by HIV+ women in poor countries and child survival

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created Jul 24, 2008 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

A new study by researchers from Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health addresses one of the most challenging issues in infant health and preventing mother-to-child HIV transmission in poor countries. In these ...


'Wildcat Power Cord' repairs cruciate ligament in dairy cow's knee

'Wildcat Power Cord' repairs cruciate ligament in dairy cow's knee

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created Mar 27, 2008 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

An 8-year-old Jersey dairy cow is back at her Kansas farm thanks to a decade of research and an experimental surgery performed at Kansas State University's Veterinary Medical Teaching Hospital.



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