Landmark gene agreement announced by Samoan government and UC Berkeley for anti-AIDS drug Prostratin
...e Prostratin and insert them into bacteria to make microbial factories for Prostratin. A similar technology is ... to produce the anti-malarial drug artemisinin. "A microbial source for Prostratin will ensure a plentiful, high-quality supply if it is approved as an anti-AIDS...Landmark agreement between Samoa and UC Berkeley could help search for AIDS cure
...e Prostratin and insert them into bacteria to make microbial factories for the drug. A similar technology is cu... to produce the anti-malarial drug artemisinin. "A microbial source for Prostratin will ensure a plentiful, high-quality supply if it is approved as an anti-AIDS...Cancer vaccine based on pathogenic listeria bacteria shows promise targeting metastases
... Listeria also can avoid antibodies, whereas other microbial vectors set up an antibody response that prevents them from being used more than once. A listeria-based cancer vaccine could thus be given periodically until a tumor has responded. Despite these attributes, the one problem with listeria has been toxi...Atacama rover helps NASA learn to search for life on Mars
...p further by trying to understand if signatures of microbial life can be unambiguously detected remotely using ...onment; characterize the geo- and biosignatures of microbial organisms and draft science protocols to support a discovery of life. Ames scientist Chris McKay is ...Researchers ID chlorophyll-regulating gene
...ing act," said Peter Quail, professor of plant and microbial biology at UC Berkeley's College of Natural Resources and principal investigator of the study. "The young plant needs some protochlorophyll to get the ball rolling in photosynthesis. But if the plant accumulates too much of the compound, it leads to ...Grant advances biochemical engineering laboratory
...n, low-contaminant environment for the transfer of microbial cultures in student fermentation experiments. The ... and sterilization associated with the scale-up of microbial fermentations. "This laboratory will help students learn the skills they need to enter the food, p...Microbes eat their way to better concrete
...amounts of organic and inorganic biosealant. "This microbial sealant is a smart material that is environmentall...proves successful, "we will attempt to produce the microbial sealant in large scale to be commercially available in the future," Bang said....Scientists explore genome of methane-breathing microbe
...nipulate M. capsulatus to more efficiently produce microbial protein for commercial animal feed. The study's senior author, TIGR Investigator Jonathan Eisen, says the analysis of M. capsulatus also will help scientists learn more about some methane-fixing bacteria those that live inside of animals such as cl...Scientists decipher genetic code of biothreat pathogen
...es of B. mallei and B. pseudomallei under an NIAID microbial sequencing contract. "Using the tools of comparative genomics, scientists will be able to deepen the understanding of the molecular reasons why these related pathogens have such different impacts, in terms of their target hosts and their pathog...Tips from the Journals of the American Society for Microbiology
...nalyses of DNA (or RNA) in its environment without microbial enrichment have allowed for precise descriptions of microbial dynamics in complex ecosystems." Using these new technologies, the researchers analyz...PNNL lands $10.3 million NIH biodefense contract to unlock proteomes of salmonella and pox
...errorists. NIAID is banking that determining which microbial proteins interact with which human host cells will...ring an outbreak. To conduct the analysis of these microbial proteins, scientists at PNNL will use proteomics instruments and approaches unavailable elsewhere th...National Academies advisory: genome data and bioterrorism
The complete genome sequences of dozens of microbial pathogens, including smallpox, anthrax, and the plague, are publicly available in databases accessible by the Internet. Should the U.S. government restrict access to this data, given concerns that bioterrorists could potentially use it to engineer th...Viral suspect for amphibian decline traced to human spread through bait
...d our global activities, all have been involved in microbial invasions of sorts. The transportation and sale of live bait is the latest example of a seemingly innocent human activity that may be responsible for spreading such diseases with dramatic ecological consequences. Evidence for this comes from the gen...Researchers improve detection of diverse anthrax strains
... effort at TIGR. "Comparing the sequence of entire microbial genomes is helping scientists unravel the complex evolutionary history of this lethal agent." The SNPs described in this work were highly stable. Only one SNP was not entirely stable across the entire study, which means that diagnostic and forensic ...JGI announces community sequencing program portfolio
...Archaea, a major branch of life that includes many microbial extremophiles--microbes that can live at extreme t...acts of contaminants and remediation treatments on microbial community dynamics. Karenia brevis a single-celled alga responsible for the natural saltwater phen...PCB breakdown in rivers depends on sediment-specific bacteria, find Carnegie Mellon U. scientists
...ld account for the variation between PCB-digesting microbial communities taken from the two rivers. The research team ultimately hopes to coax bacteria with a preference for PCBs into becoming more dominant life-forms in sediments. Future studies that modify nutrients in sediments from contaminated sites with...Promising hospital anti-infection strategy probably won't work, study shows
...umerical models that examined the mechanics of how microbial infections spread in hospitals and how the microbes build resistance to antibiotics. Bergstrom is the lead author of a paper detailing the work, which is being published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and will appear online th...Dispute over life in Antarctic lake
...esting that the lake supports a small but thriving microbial ecosystem. But molecular biologist Sergey Bulat of the Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute, Russia, has created a furore by questioning the accuracy of this research. At last week's meeting of the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research in Breme...New glycan arrays discover autoimmunogenic activities of SARS-CoV: concern over monkey vaccine
...y a collection of carbohydrate antigens, including microbial and plant-derived polysaccharides, as well as cellular glycan complex carbohydrates. To extend the repertoire of diverse carbohydrate structures on an array, they especially included blood group substances A, B, O, Lewis, I, and i antigens, their p...Report outlines vision and recommendations for microbiology in the 21st Century
...pecial academic niche. The report recommends that microbial sciences should be firmly integrated into pre-coll...and all biologists must have a solid background in microbial sciences." The report puts forth that microbiology should not be considered to be just another orga...