Microbiology

Bed Bugs Get Short Sheeted- Using Their Own Chemical Signals

Scientists here have determined that combining bed bugs' own chemical signals with a common insect control agent makes that treatment more effective at killing the bugs.  The researchers found that stirring up the bed bugs by spraying their environmen ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 2 2009 - 2:51pm

Herminiimonas Glaciei- Tiny Frozen Microbe May Be Clue To Extra-Terrestrial Life

Dr Jennifer Loveland-Curtze and a team of scientists from Pennsylvania State University say that a  bacterium trapped more than a mile under under glacial ice in Greenland for over 120,000 years may hold clues as to what life forms might exist on other pla ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 14 2009 - 7:05pm

Breakthrough- Fruit Fly Gets Genetic Code For Human Neuromuscular Disease

Scientists at VIB, the Flanders Institute for Biotechnology, have successfully introduced genes coding for a variant of the Charcot-Marie-Tooth (CMT) disease, into fruit flies. CMT is one of the most common hereditary disorders of the peripheral nervous sy ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 22 2009 - 5:00pm

Colicins- Bacterial Warfare That Can Save Lives

Six groups of scientists from the Departments of Biology and Chemistry at the University of York and the Astbury Centre for Structural and Molecular Biology, Faculty of Biological Sciences, at the University of Leeds have set out discover how a group of pr ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 5 2009 - 11:32am

Carbohydrates Back In Fashion: Glycans May Suppress Tumors, Say Researchers

Scientists at Burnham Institute for Medical Research (Burnham) say they have discovered that specialized complex sugar molecules (glycans) that anchor cells into place act as tumor suppressors in breast and prostate cancers. Glycans play a critical role in ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 6 2009 - 5:04pm

Human Sperm Created In The Lab Bodes Ill For Men

The news that Newcastle University researchers have used embryonic stem cells to create human sperm under laboratory conditions has led to a lot of questions; like, who will television commercials make fun of if all men are gone? In the technique developed ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 8 2009 - 9:48pm

The Mystery E. Coli Genes That Help Us Survive?

University of Dundee scientists say they have shown that E. coli, one of the most extensively studied organisms in the world, still has some secrets that may hold the key to human diseases, such as cancer.  The team has examined the genome sequence of this ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 13 2009 - 9:17am

Filmed: Microscopic Battle Between Bacterial And Immune Cells

A new technique has allowed researchers to make film bacteria infecting their living host. Most studies of bacterial infection are done after the death of the infected organism a new technique developed by scientists at the University of Bath and Universit ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 27 2009 - 4:30pm

Spermatogonial Cells May Avoid Embryonic Stem Cell Pitfalls

Researchers say they directly convert spermatogonial stem cells, the precursors of sperm cells, into tissues of the prostate, skin and uterus, an effective alternative to the medical use of embryonic stem cells. ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 28 2009 - 2:14pm

Water In Comets- A Cometary Panspermia Origin Of Life Hypothesis

Comets contained vast oceans of liquid water in their interiors during the first million years of their formation, argue Professor Chandra Wickramasinghe and colleagues at the Cardiff Centre for Astrobiology in a paper published in the International Journa ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 30 2009 - 1:48pm