Landmark gene agreement announced by Samoan government and UC Berkeley for anti-AIDS drug Prostratin
... naturally produce Prostratin and insert them into bacteria to make microbial factories for Prostratin. A simi...plans to insert the genes into a strain of E. coli bacteria that he has created to produce isoprenoid compounds like Prostratin. The product of more than 10 yea...Landmark agreement between Samoa and UC Berkeley could help search for AIDS cure
... naturally produce Prostratin and insert them into bacteria to make microbial factories for the drug. A simila...plans to insert the genes into a strain of E. coli bacteria that he has created to produce isoprenoid compounds like Prostratin. The product of more than 10 yea...Cancer vaccine based on pathogenic listeria bacteria shows promise targeting metastases
...xperimental cancer vaccine using defanged listeria bacteria is showing great promise in animal studies, succes... Calif., employs a genetically engineered listeria bacteria based on a strain created by coauthor and University of California, Berkeley, microbiologist Daniel ...Researchers create nanotubes that change colors, form 'nanocarpet' and kill bacteria
...s observed the tubes piercing the membranes of the bacteria like a needle being inserted into the cell. Both the polymerized (those that can change color) and the unpolymerized nanotube structures were effective antimicrobials, completely killing all the E. coli within an hour's time. "We are very encouraged...Anthrax enzyme images reveal secrets of antibiotic resistance, suggest new drug design
...cal pathway that produces folate, a nutrient these bacteria need to survive. Sulfa drugs are antibiotics that ...upt the enzyme's normal work," White said. "So the bacteria evade the antibiotic and continue to make folate and survive." Based on the new understanding of the...'Smart antibiotics' may result from UCLA research
...t bacteria. "A problem with antibiotics is that bacteria can mutate and become resistant to a particular an... to rapidly evolve new variants that can recognize bacteria that may have become resistant to the previous phage," Miller said. The microbiologists initial...Scientists discover potential new way to control drug-resistant bacteria
...ntially tailor these viruses to infect and destroy bacteria that have mutated and become drug-resistant." "... evolve new variants that can recognize and attack bacteria that may have become resistant to the previous phage. "Phage therapy has been practiced for nearl...A novel, safer strategy for regulating gene expression
...nimals, and bacteria. Recent studies suggest that bacteria use ribozymes to regulate their own gene activity, by "sensing" and reacting to changing levels of natural compounds in their environment. Scientists have theorized that these ribozymes might have evolved before proteins did and functioned as an anc...Scientists explore genome of methane-breathing microbe
...apsulatus a species typical of methane-breathing bacteria commonly found in soils, landfills, sediments and ...lp scientists learn more about some methane-fixing bacteria those that live inside of animals such as clams and mussels in deep-sea methane seeps that are ext...Amyloid fibers sprout one step at a time
...s with Alzheimer's or Parkinson's disease. Unlike bacteria and viruses, prions consist only of aberrant proteins that misfold into forms that, in turn, induce normal proteins to misfold. In mammalian prion infections, these abnormal, insoluble proteins trigger protein clumping, producing a plaque that can ki...22nd amino acid synthesized and added to genetic code of e. coli bacteria
...e amino acid itself L-pyrrolysine and shown that bacteria can incorporate it into new proteins the biological components which do most of the work in cells. The importance of their work is the explanation of exactly how the 22nd amino acid is incorporated into proteins inside living cells. The genetic inst...Tips from the Journals of the American Society for Microbiology
...ombined with lactic acid may inhibit the growth of bacteria in meat and fish say researchers from Massachusett...Adult The presence of certain bacteria in dental plaque of children could help predict their risk of developing periodontal disease as adul...Washington University in St. Louis leads group studying aging process
...l culprits in the aging process in everything from bacteria to human beings. Himadri Pakrasi, Ph.D., Washington University professor of biology, is the principal investigator of a five-year, five million dollar project from the Frontiers in Integrative Biological Research (FIBR) program at the National Scienc...Genetically modified bacterium as remedy for intestinal diseases
...he TFF bacteria. The researchers also used the TFF bacteria to treat mice with chronic enteritis, which proved..., this method of working with genetically modified bacteria offers promising prospects for the treatment of both acute and chronic intestinal inflammation, and ...Case for IBD combination therapy comes from research at Baylor, MIT and Hebrew University
... in IL-10 deficient mice. Probiotics and commensal bacteria represent likely sources for novel therapeutic strategies in inflammatory bowel diseases, and have become increasingly interesting to researchers. Indeed, some probiotic therapy agents are thought to be nearing the clinical trial stage. It is well-kn...PNNL lands $10.3 million NIH biodefense contract to unlock proteomes of salmonella and pox
...(NIAID) to identify the proteins that regulate the bacteria that cause salmonella poisoning and typhoid fever, and the monkey pox virus. The five-year award is the Department of Energy lab's third $10 million National Institutes of Health grant or contract in the past year and the second for Richard D. Smith,...Missing genes may help explain why plague bacteria are so deadly
...f the disease. Perhaps the most infectious of all bacteria in humans, Y. pestis was responsible for the bubonic plague, or "Black Death," that killed millions of people in Asia and Europe in the Middle Ages. Most Y. pestis strains are treatable with antibiotics. If left untreated, however, bubonic plague is ...Bacteria use 'molecular lasso' to cop copper
The bacteria that destroy about one-third of the potent greenho...nvironment, where it "lassos" atoms of copper. The bacteria then reabsorb the compound and use the copper as a weapon against methane, from which they extract e...Complex cells likely arose from combination of bacterial and extreme-microbe genomes
...f the journal Nature. Scientists refer to both bacteria and Archaea as "prokaryotes"--a cell type that has...ms selected from the three categories (eukaryotes, bacteria and Archaea). All of the microbes contained about the same number of genes. The researchers then u......evolutionary branches and roots, showing groups of bacteria on the bottom and multicellular animals on the hig... photosynthetic group of microscopic single-celled bacteria called the proteobacteria. The group is primarily photosynthetic, but today also includes non-photos...