Scientists use bacteria to help plants grow in salty soil
Method could be scaled up to help farmers improve crop yield in areas with increased soil salinityCredit: Brent L. Nielsen, ...
Tag: Bacteriology
Syphilis eludes immune attack by altering a single gene
By shuffling DNA in and out of one gene, syphilis stays a step ahead of the immune system to resist ...
Scientists reveal how tuberculosis bacteria import vitamin B12 to grow
Credit: Daria Sokol/MIPT Press Office Researchers from Russia, the Netherlands, Sweden, and the U.S. have revealed the structure of the ...
New study reveals life’s earliest evolution was more complicated than previously suspected
Credit: Credit: S. Shiobara, S. McGlynn, ELSI, CC BY 4.0 Biologists have long hoped to understand the nature of the ...
Is it safe to spin-dry leafy greens in a washing machine?
UMass Amherst researchers receive grant to study common practice at small New England farmsCredit: UMass Amherst Some of the nearly ...
Printed to find a cure
Credit: IPC PAS, Grzegorz Krzyzewski Would you like to be able to find out which antibiotic combination works best for ...
Cable bacteria can drastically reduce greenhouse gas emissions from rice cultivation
A Danish-German research collaboration may have found a solution to the large climate impact from the world's rice production: By ...
Australia’s Centre for Digestive Diseases cures Crohn’s disease in new study
The Centre for Digestive Disease headed by Professor Thomas Borody has cured Crohn's disease as reported today by Dr Gaurav ...
The importance of probiotic names — and why some of them have changed
Scientists announce new names for some of the most popular probiotic bacteriaCredit: Photo by http://benvandenbroecke.be/ from https://isappscience.org/ "Probiotic" is a ...
Chemist developing 3D simulations of coronavirus spike proteins
Research will show how the virus binds to human cell receptors and will aid the development of vaccines and therapeuticsCredit: ...
Salk scientist Ronald Evans receives a 2020 NOMIS Distinguished Scientist Award
Credit: Salk Institute Salk Professor Ronald Evans, Howard Hughes Medical investigator and director of Salk's Gene Expression Laboratory, has been ...
Study reveals unique physical, chemical properties of cicada wings
Credit: Photo by Wayne Boo, U.S. Geological Survey CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- Biological structures sometimes have unique features that engineers would ...
The building blocks of gum disease
Credit: S. Shibata, OIST Porphyromonas gingivalis is a major bacterial pathogen which leads to periodontitis also known as gum disease. ...
Light driven proton pump in distant relative
Unique protein acts as an inward proton pump in a distant microbial relativeCredit: © 2020 IDKlab CC BY-SA 4.0 Researchers ...
Technique offers path for biomanufacturing medicines during space flights
Research simulating instrument aboard international space station nurtures E. coli bacteriaCredit: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute TROY, N.Y. -- An instrument currently ...
Research sheds light on how silver ions kill bacteria
By studying proteins at the molecular level, scientists hope to understand how silver can be used to fight 'superbugs'Credit: Russell ...
Researchers uncover importance of aligning biological clock with day-night cycles
Bacterial model shows DNA incorporation depends on the peaks and valleys of circadian rhythmsCredit: Golden Lab, UC San Diego Timing ...
Harnessing the power of electricity-producing bacteria for programmable ‘biohybrids’
Credit: ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces 2020, DOI: 10.1021/acsami.9b22116 Someday, microbial cyborgs -- bacteria combined with electronic devices -- could ...
Drinking green tea may help with food allergies
Credit: Tasuku Ogita Ph.D., the Institute for Biomedical Sciences, Shinshu University, Japan. Research findings suggest gut microbes can effect allergic ...
Wild tomato resistance to bacterial canker has implications for commercial tomato industry
Credit: F. Christopher Peritore-Galve Bacterial canker of tomato is a disease that leads to wilt, cankers, and eventually death. The ...