Cancer vaccine based on pathogenic listeria bacteria shows promise targeting metastases
...y coauthor and University of California, Berkeley, microbiologist Daniel Portnoy. Buoyed by the success of the new cancer vaccine, Cerus scientists now are aiming for human trials. Cerus ultimately hopes to use the genetically engineered listeria vaccine to target cancers such as pancreatic and ovarian cancer, and ...New signs of life found at the Poles
..., lichens and mosses that live above ground. BAS microbiologist Dr Charles Cockell says, "Although it's usual to find micro-organisms thriving under quartz and translucent rocks in hot deserts because enough light gets through, we wouldn't have expected this type of colonization in the polar regions where most of...Bad news for pathogenic bacteria: Scientists find protein essential for bacterial survival
... institution in Japan, Artsimovitch and Ohio State microbiologist Vladimir Svetlov solved high-resolution crystal structures of DksA. Solving this structure meant that the researchers could at last determine just how DksA helped ppGpp hold fast to its target, RNA polymerase. DksA uses something scientists call...Make a splash for public health this summer
...take, according to noted Michigan State University microbiologist Dr. Joan Rose, is your personal health and the health of your family. "Improperly treated public swimming pools can be the source of a variety of infections and illnesses associated with waterborne germs such as Giardia, E-coli, Shigella and Cryptos...Finding the hole in the defenses of cavity-creating microbes
...ting your teeth," says Robert Quivey Jr., Ph.D., a microbiologist and an associate professor in the Center for Oral Biology. "That's why proper oral hygiene, such as brushing, flossing and regular dental check-ups, are so important, to rid the mouth of these bacteria." In a paper in the July 1 issue of the Journal...Researcher issues caution on live virus vaccines
...A, N.Y., June 18, 2004--A New York Medical College microbiologist warns that live virus vaccines to prevent infectious diseases like West Nile virus and yellow fever could have dire consequences. Should one of the vaccine flaviviruses recombine with a wild-type virus, a new microbe with potentially undesirable prop...Common worm provides insights into salmonella virulence
...bacteria and other microbes," said lead researcher microbiologist Alejandro Aballay, Ph.D. "It has a highly developed system for not only recognizing bacteria, but also responding to them. The ability of its innate immune system to respond appropriately to specific bacteria is very similar to that of mammals. "The ...White tea beats green tea in fighting germs
...ight disease," says Milton Schiffenbauer, Ph.D., a microbiologist and professor in the Department of Biology at Pace University's Dyson College of Arts & Sciences and primary author of the research. "Our research shows White Tea Extract can actually destroy in vitro the organisms that cause disease. Study after stu......sts are also going after the DNA. Yossef Av-Gay, a microbiologist at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada, has been asked by Nanobac to work out what makes nanobacteria tick. "These particles are self-replicating, that is without doubt," Av-Gay says. But finding out what is inside them is complic...John Sherris receives 2004 Abmm/Abmli Professional Recognition Award
... by the Society for his achievements as a clinical microbiologist when he became the first recipient of the BD Award for Research in Clinical Microbiology in 1978. The bioMrieux Sonnenwirth Award for Leadership in Clinical Microbiology followed in 1988. Sherris is an elected Fellow of the American Academy of Microb...Ferr-D'amar wins 2004 Eli Lilly and Company Research Award
...able originality, accomplishment, and promise in a microbiologist or immunologist at the beginning of his or her career. At the ASM General Meeting, Ferr-D'Amar will present the Eli Lilly Award Lecture, "Crystallographic Studies of Catalytic RNA Function." In receiving the Eli Lilly Award, Ferr-D'Amar is recogniz...Chicken litter harbors agents that generate antibiotic multi-resistance, according to UGA study
...anyone had suspected before," said Anne Summers, a microbiologist from UGA who led the study. "Finding such a huge reservoir of integrons explains a long-standing puzzle about how clusters of resistance genes spread so rapidly and persist in bacterial communities even after antibiotic use concludes." Other author...Hopkins Marine Station honored by the American Society for Microbiology
...va Scotia. The lecture series is named for Hopkins microbiologist Cornelis B. van Niel, who died in 1985. Immediately following the lecture, ASM President Thomas Shenk will present a plaque commemorating Van Niel's long and distinguished career. The plaque will be affixed to the Loeb Laboratory, site of Van Niel'...Decoding a sulfate-breathing bug
...for our purposes," she says. Gerrit Voordouw, a microbiologist at the University of Calgary in Canada and a collaborator on the project, is an expert on the organism. "Knowing the genomic sequence will allow detailed unraveling of the mechanism by which sulfate-reducing bacteria like D. vulgaris use metallic iro...Reporters from Science Magazine to receive ASM Public Communications Award
...up the emergence of SARS and question why a senior microbiologist and his team failed to report their findings linking SARS to the coronavirus. Now that the region has been declared SARS free, the writers say Chinese researchers are reeling at the missed opportunity to show off China's advanced scientific capabili......ille, MD Three centuries after a pioneering Dutch microbiologist first observed the spiral-shaped oral pathogen Treponema denticola, scientists have deciphered the bacterium's entire DNA sequence and used comparative genomics to cast new light on other spirochete microbes. The study by scientists at The Institute ...Case researchers substantiate bacterial link to preterm birth through mice studies
CLEVELAND--A team of researchers, led by microbiologist Yiping Han from Case Western Reserve University School of Dental Medicine, have discovered that a bacterium (Fusobacterium nucleatum) found in periodontal disease enters the blood, specifically targets placentas and amniotic fluid of pregnant mice an...Anthrax spores can germinate, grow and reproduce in soil
...s that ordinary dirt can do the job, as well. U-M microbiologist Philip C. Hanna, Ph.D., announced his research findings in a Feb. 14 presentation at the American Association for the Advancement of Science meeting. His results are surprising, because most scientists believe B. anthracis spores will not germinate a...Bacteria discoveries could resemble Mars, other planets
...ago, in a study published in Science, Fisk and OSU microbiologist Steve Giovannoni described evidence they uncovered of rock-eating microbes living nearly a mile beneath the ocean floor. The microbial fossils they found in miles of core samples came from the Pacific, Atlantic and Indian oceans. Fisk said he became ......'s Green Synthesis of Energetic Materials program, microbiologist John Frost and his team at Michigan State University created strains of microbes that convert certain types of sugars into a non-natural synthetic material, called butanetriol. The Navy depends on the slightly yellow liquid to produce the propellant ...