Transporter's function provides support for eating vegetables, limiting antibiotics
...hemistry. In an amazing model of efficiency, good bacteria in the colon produce an enzyme that releases gluco...gen-less environment of the bacteria-packed colon, bacteria ferment this glucose to use for energy which also results in the production of short-chain fatty aci...Study examines whether giving good bacteria reduces infections
Whether giving good bacteria that normally helps keep the intestinal tract and ...ent of them will get an infection with a resistant bacteria during their stay," says Dr. Robert G. Martindale, gastrointestinal surgeon, nutritionist and princi...Researchers decode genome of rabbit fever pathogen
...response, and then multiplies within the body. The bacteria can enter the body through open wounds, inhalation, ingestion, or bites from ticks and deerflies. Signs of pneumonia and fever typically arise 24 to 48 hours after the disease is contracted. While the virulent SchuS4 strain sequenced by Uppsala Unive...DFG establishes 14 new research units
... to the "green" photosynthetic process, plants and bacteria have receptors that respond to blue light and transform the light signals into chemical processes. How this signal processing functions has not yet been adequately clarified and is now to be examined by the Research Unit entitled "Blue Light-sensitiv...Seeking a mechanical solution to nation's number-one children's illness
...researchers scramble to develop new antibiotics as bacteria become resistant to existing drugs. Samir Ghadiali...eustachian tube," he says, "this will help prevent bacteria from accumulating and inflammation from occurring in the middle ear. An infection may clear up regar...Capturing cell protein production in action could help fight antibiotic resistance
...r author of the study says: "Many antibiotics kill bacteria by interfering with their protein-making factories, or ribosomes. But bacteria can often become resistant by mutating their ribosome machinery. Observing ribosomes in action helps...Microbial fuel cell cleans, generates electricity from domestic wastewater
.... Microbial fuel cells work through the action of bacteria which can pass electrons to an anode, the negative...estigation in other laboratories, various kinds of bacteria are typically added to the system. However, in the Penn State approach, no special bacteria are add...Antibiotics may not be necessary when treating children with a simple skin abscess
... signs of a preceding trauma. Antibiotic-resistant bacteria are often thought to be more virulent than their a...t Staphylococcus aureus. Abscesses caused by these bacteria have become extremely common in children. "I think it's good news for physicians. It addresses the d...Fuel-cell microbes' double duty: treat water, make energy
...treatment circuit thanks to a new design that puts bacteria ondouble-duty-treating wastewater and generating e...ells run off ofhydrogen. In a microbial fuel cell, bacteria metabolize theirfood-in this case, organic matter in wastewater-to releaseelectrons that yield a ste...... ARBOR, Mich.---An experiment which forced E. coli bacteria to adapt or perish showed that, in a pinch, they w...g a novel molecular tool to save their skins. "The bacteria reached for a tool that they had, and made it do something it doesn't normally do," said James Bardw...Tips from the Journals of the American Society for Microbiology
...ar disinfection unit. Results showed that 99 % of bacteria in highly contaminated samples were disinfected af...UE PATIENTS Sourdough bread containing select bacteria may be tolerated by patients with a rare digestive disease that causes gluten intolerance, say Itali...Discovery could lead to better treatment for cryptosporidum infections
...ther organisms by "gene transfer" is well known in bacteria (and the reason why resistance to antibiotics is spreading so fast among them) but a new concept in parasites. As a result of gene transfers, the enzymes used by C. parvum represent an "evolutionary patchwork, stitched together from protozoan, bacter...Mouth microbes may help shape immune system, says Stanford research team
...id Relman. While there is a general consensus that bacteria play a role in causing gum disease, no single microbe has been implicated as the culprit. "The details on how oral microbes cause disease is probably not a simple story," said Relman. "One agent does not equal one disease. There are complex interacti...Approved drug blocks deadly anthrax toxin
... the early stages of anthrax infection, before the bacteria have had time to spread and secrete toxins, which ...eres with the host's immune response, allowing the bacteria to spread, multiply and produce more toxins. Later, edema factor causes massive tissue damage, incl...Disease-fighters in our mouths provide clues to enhancing the immune system
...quired immune system over time as we're exposed to bacteria and viruses," said Dr. Beverly Dale, professor in ...ample, disease-causing and harmless, or commensal, bacteria trigger the activation of beta-defensins through different chemical signaling pathways. The role of ...Anthrax spores can germinate, grow and reproduce in soil
... in the soil," Hanna reported. "At that point, the bacteria formed new spores and became dormant. In every case, we ended up with more spores than we added to the original soil samples." Hanna emphasized that the Ann Arbor soil samples did not contain naturally occurring anthrax spores, and that the attenua...It's a stirring tale of bacteria
...into a petri dish, that's what they saw. Groups of bacteria streamed through the fluid, creating an ever-chang...the first time it's been observed in bacteria. The bacteria the UA team observed, Bacillus subtilis, swim by rotating a series of corkscrew-like appendages, cal...Findings of novel nanoproperties in selenium produced by bacteria open new area of exploration
...land reported that three different kinds of common bacteria "grow" the element selenium in the form of uniform...laer biology graduate, has been studying anaerobic bacteria that respire, or "breathe," soluble salts, or "oxyanions," of toxic elements, such as selenium and a...Bacteria lingering in body may pose future food poisoning risks, Stanford study finds
...s that an unwitting food worker could transmit the bacteria to others by contaminating food products. The bact...f Listeria infection in live mice. They tagged the bacteria with a luminescent molecule that can be non-invasively detected in living tissue, and then analyzed ...Seeing how plants split water could provide key to our future energy needs
...nt way too." Photosynthesis occurs in plants, some bacteria and algae and involves two protein complexes, photosystem I, and photosystem II - which contains the water-splitting centre. While previous models of PSII function have sketched out a picture of how the water splitting centre might be organised, the ...