Microbiology

Pattern-Recognition Receptors: New Defenses Against Plant Diseases

Writing in Nature Biotechnology, an international team of scientists say they have  transferred broad spectrum resistance against some important plant diseases across different plant families. The findings could provide a new biotechnological solution to e ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 15 2010 - 11:55am

'Flying Vaccinator': The Answer To Malaria?

Genetic engineering may one day turn the Anopheles mosquito, the transmitter of malaria, into a natural 'flying vaccinator' for the disease, a new study in Insect Molecular Biology suggests. Scientists have successfully generated a transgenic mos ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 18 2010 - 7:06pm

Coastal Microbes: The Answer To Plastic Ocean Pollution?

Coastal microbes may offer a smart solution for plastic contamination in the world's oceans, according to research presented at the Society for General Microbiology's spring meeting. The research shows that the combination of marine microbes that ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 8 2010 - 6:58pm

Biochemists Disable Antibiotic Resistance In MRSA

Researchers writing in Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy have found a chemical compound that, when used in conjunction with conventional antibiotics, effectively destroys biofilms produced by antibiotic-resistant strains of the Staphylococcus strain MR ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 8 2010 - 2:29pm

Home Cheese Makers Take Note: Consider Kefir For Making Feta

by Amanda Siekierski (student) I once read that "age doesn't matter, unless you're a cheese." This somewhat comical phrase is referring to the process of cheese production where various milks, depending on the type of cheese, are coagul ...

Article - Justin Maresh - Apr 17 2010 - 5:38pm

Endoxenoturbella Lovénii- New Bacteria Found In Sweden

Researchers from the University of Gothenburg have discovered a brand new species of bacterium found only in the Gullmarsfjord north of Gothenburg in Sweden. The new species has been dubbed Endoxenoturbella lovénii. The bacterium is an endosymbiotic prokar ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 19 2010 - 11:57am

Irish Researchers Fighting Fungal Infections With Bacteria

A bacterial pathogen can communicate with yeast to block the development of drug-resistant yeast infections according to Irish scientists writing in the May issue of Microbiology. The research could be a step towards new strategies to prevent hospital-acqu ...

Blog Post - flower 5 - Jun 24 2013 - 7:57pm

How About the Ethics Verifiability of Solid Science

I have come to believe that science has abandoned its viability and veracity.  For example, we can make microcameras and artificial organs but micro technology to fight things like viruses and bacterial infections is not being explored.  The Sciences need ...

Blog Post - Cynthia Mock - Jun 11 2010 - 12:29pm

NY3- Common Bacteria Strain Could Aid In Gulf Oil Spill Cleanup

A new strain of bacteria  can produce non-toxic, comparatively inexpensive rhamnolipids and effectively help degrade polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, or PAHs – the environmental pollutants that are one of the most harmful aspects of oil spills. The findin ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 11 2010 - 1:33pm

Nano-Syringe: How Bacteria Outwit The Immune System

Each day the humans are confronted with a variety of pathogens. Most of them are fended off by our immune system.  For a successful infection, bacteria must deliver so-called virulence factors through a transport channel located in the bacterial membrane. ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 13 2010 - 2:56pm