Researchers have imaged a major component in conjugation—the process bacteria use to share DNA with each other.
Cell & Microbiology
Nov 25, 2021
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New research from the University of Technology Sydney (UTS) has found that pathogens that form biofilms can evolve to survive nanosilver treatment. The study is the first to demonstrate that long-term nanosilver treatment ...
Bio & Medicine
Oct 11, 2021
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Bacteria can survive antibiotic treatment even without antibiotic resistance by slowing down their metabolism and going into a type of deep sleep. A research team funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation reveals the ...
Cell & Microbiology
Feb 12, 2021
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An important and still unanswered question is how new genes that cause antibiotic resistance arise. In a new study, Swedish and American researchers have shown how new genes that produce resistance can arise from completely ...
Cell & Microbiology
Jan 8, 2021
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The tuberculosis bacterium has been around as long as mankind has.
Cell & Microbiology
Aug 6, 2020
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The team of Professor Tobias Bollenbach from the Institute for Biological Physics at the University of Cologne has published a study on a new approach to improving the effectiveness of antibiotics in bacterial infections. ...
Evolution
Jun 24, 2020
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One of the most serious threats to public health worldwide is posed by antibiotic-resistant pathogens. The World Health Organization (WHO) warns of the imminent beginning of a post-antibiotic era in which harmless infections ...
Cell & Microbiology
Oct 29, 2019
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Scientists from Rutgers University and around the world have discovered an antibiotic produced by a soil bacterium from a Mexican tropical forest that may help lead to a "plant probiotic," more robust plants and other antibiotics.
Cell & Microbiology
Oct 8, 2019
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A deadly, antibiotic-resistant bacterium can be sterilized by hijacking its heme-acquisition system, which is essential for its survival. The new strategy, developed by Nagoya University researchers and colleagues in Japan, ...
Biochemistry
Sep 18, 2019
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The oldest publicly-available strain of the cholera-causing bacterial species, Vibrio cholerae, has had its genetic code read for the first time by researchers at the Wellcome Sanger Institute and their collaborators. The ...
Biotechnology
Apr 9, 2019
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