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'Surprising link' leads toward a new antibiotic
May 28, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- As the best drugs become increasingly resistant to superbugs, McMaster University researchers have discovered a completely different way of looking for a new antibiotic.
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Virus Enzymes Could Promote Human, Animal Health
Aug 31, 2009 |
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(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 ...
Researchers get first 3-D glimpse of bacterial cell-wall architecture
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Nov 17, 2008 |
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The bacterial cell wall that is the target of potent antibiotics such as penicillin is actually made up of a thin single layer of carbohydrate chains, linked together by peptides, which wrap around the bacterium like a belt ...
Researchers analyze how new anti-MRSA abtibiotics function
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Jul 28, 2008 |
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A new paper by Shahriar Mobashery, Navari Family Professor in Life Sciences at the University of Notre Dame, and researchers in his lab provides important insights into promising new antibiotics aimed at combating MRSA.
Research could put penicillin back in battle against antibiotic resistant bugs that kill millions
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Mar 12, 2008 |
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Research led by the University of Warwick has uncovered exactly how the bacterium Streptococcus pneumoniae has become resistant to the antibiotic penicillin. The same research could also open up MRSA to attack ...
Researchers track how spores break out of dormant state
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Jun 04, 2007 |
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Tapping into the unknown world of awakening dormant bacterial spores, researchers have revealed through atomic force microscopy (AFM) the alterations of spore coat and germ cell wall that accompany the transformation from ...
An Infectious Agent of Deception, Exposed Through Proteomics
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Sep 29, 2006 |
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Salmonella bacteria, infamous for food poisoning that kills hundreds of thousands worldwide, infect by stealth. They slip unnoticed into and multiply inside macrophages, the very immune system cells the body relies on to ...
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