Mauritian medical herbs possess antitumor properties
They contain biologically active substances of these species have shown to contain effective inhibitors of oesophageal cancer cellsCredit: FEFU press ...
Tag: Bacteriology
New variety of zebra chip disease threatens potato production in southwestern Oregon
Credit: K. D. Swisher Grimm and S. F. Garczynski St. Paul, MN (April 2019)--Named after the dark stripes that form ...
Cell-killing proteins suppress listeria without killing cells
Credit: Kazuhito Sai, NC State University New North Carolina State University research shows that key proteins known for their ability ...
Antimicrobial paints have a blind spot
Spore-forming bacteria survive on surfaces coated with antimicrobial, latex paintsCredit: Jinglin Hu/Northwestern University EVANSTON, Ill. -- Antimicrobial paints offer the ...
Ginkgo seed extracts show antibacterial activity on skin pathogens
Experiments were guided by a prescription in a 16th-century textCredit: Emory University Extracts from the seeds of the Ginkgo biloba ...
Certain strains of bacteria associated with diabetic wounds that do not heal
Penn study implicates microbes in impaired wound healing that can lead to amputationCredit: Penn Medicine PHILADELPHIA - Whether a wound--such ...
More severe salmonella outbreaks ahead: University of Sydney research
Researchers develop method to predict salmonella outbreaksCredit: Professor Mikhail Prokopenko, University of Sydney Australia has more salmonella outbreaks than any ...
Boutte receives grant to study mycobacterial cell wall division, regulation
Dangerous germsCredit: UT Arlington A biologist at The University of Texas at Arlington is creating a comprehensive molecular model of ...
FIU scientists discover new arsenic-based broad-spectrum antibiotic
Researchers from Florida International University's Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine are part of an international team that has discovered a ...
Bacterial mix helps predict future change
Credit: © 2019 KAUST Reproduced under a Creative Commons license 4.0 from reference 1 A controlled, laboratory approach, along with ...
New research identifies microbes that may reduce allergy-like reactions in many people
Credit: Monika Dzieciol AMES, Iowa - Some aged cheeses cause allergy-like reactions in many people, but an Iowa State University ...
New compound allows bacterial communication to be controlled by light
Credit: Dusan Kolarski, University of Groningen Scientists from the University of Groningen have succeeded in incorporating a light-controlled switch into ...
Necrophagy: A means of survival in the Dead Sea
UNIGE researchers have found that bacteria can survive in the sediments of the Dead Sea at a depth of over ...
Starvation study shows bacteria’s survival skills
Credit: Jessica Mark Welch and Gary Borisy, PNAS.1522149113 A larger genetic inventory may help explain how certain dangerous bacteria can ...
We now know how insects and bacteria control ice
Proteins help organisms form or inhibit ice crystals Contrary to what you may have been taught, water doesn't always freeze ...
Bacteria surrounding coral reefs change in synchrony, even across great distance
Credit: Jennifer Smith In coral reef ecosystems, amid stony corals, fronds of algae and schools of fish, microorganisms are essential ...
How plants defend themselves
Plant immune system detects bacteria through small fatty acid moleculesCredit: Astrid Eckert / TUM Like humans and animals, plants defend ...
Biosynthesis of widespread pigments from bacteria revealed
Researchers from Goethe University and TU Munich decode biosynthesis of aryl polyene pigmentsCredit: Maximilian Schmalhofer Aryl polyene are yellow pigments ...
Microbes in the human body swap genes, even across tissue boundaries, study indicates
Credit: Photo courtesy Los Alamos National Laboratory CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- Bacteria in the human body are sharing genes with one ...
GARDP announces multi-actor partnerships in search of new antibiotics
Discovery efforts will focus on World Health Organization's (WHO) priority pathogens Multi-actor partnership tests natural products and compound libraries for ...
