Microbiology
- Sweat-Rating Bacteria Improve Skin Health- Study
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Bacteria that metabolize ammonia may improve skin health and could even be used for the treatment of skin disorders like acne, finds a new study conducted by AOBiome LLC. Ammonia is a major component of sweat. In a small study, human volunteers using the ...
Article - News Staff - Sep 30 2014 - 10:50am
- Bacteria May Reduce Impact Of Valium In UK Rivers
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Valium (Diazepam) and similar medicines degrade naturally in the environment but it takes time, and until it happens there is concern about the freshwater environment. Bacterial breakdown may give it a boost, a team of researchers has said. Diazepam, used ...
Article - News Staff - Oct 1 2014 - 8:30am
- Babies' Gut Bacteria Are Mostly Fixed By Time Spent In The Womb
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Your gut bacteria won't change much. Credit: ponchicaBG By Nicholas Ellaby, University of Liverpool From eyes to the gap between the toes, we are covered in bacterial colonies. Between 500 and 1000 unique species live in our gut alone. We provide an ...
Article - The Conversation - Oct 3 2014 - 5:08pm
- Cyborg Bacteria Can Defeat Bioterrorism
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The 21st century promises to bring a kind of science warfare only dreamed about in science fiction. Already it's become clear that it is possible to paralyze a large chunk of America and get policymakers in perpetual crisis mode, even with something a ...
Article - Hank Campbell - Oct 8 2014 - 3:40pm
- Is Organic Manure Causing More Antibiotic Resistance?
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It's long been known that cows fed antibiotics to ward off diseases can be placing them back into the environment biologically- and that could be one reason for increased antibiotic resistance. We can't be too hard on cows and chickens, people ar ...
Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Nov 8 2015 - 8:20pm
- Genetically Modified Bacteria As Biofertilizers
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Researchers are working to select autochthonous bacteria with biofertilizing potential as a result of the stimulating effect they have on the take-up of nutrients by plants, phytohormone production and phytopathogen control. Both organic and synthetic fert ...
Article - News Staff - Oct 10 2014 - 4:50pm
- Antibiotic Resistance At The Ribosome Level
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High-resolution cryo-electron microscopy has revealed in unprecedented detail the structural changes in the bacterial ribosome which results in resistance to the antibiotic erythromycin. ...
Article - News Staff - Oct 14 2014 - 9:36am
- Designer Viruses Could Be The New Antibiotics
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Bacteria under attack by a flock of bacteriophages. Credit: Graham Beards /Wikimedia Commons By Luc Henry, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne ...
Article - The Conversation - Oct 14 2014 - 10:01am
- How Bacterial Species Evolve Antibiotic Resistance
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Given a critical change in the environment, how exactly do species adapt? ...
Article - News Staff - Oct 14 2014 - 6:30pm
- Fecal Transplant Might Mitigate Lupus
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Can probiotic yogurt help with lupus? While most of science disagrees, corporate marketing departments have embraced every chance to imply their product helps with digestion and whatever else can sell product. A new paper in Applied and Environmental Mi ...
Article - News Staff - Oct 20 2014 - 6:30pm
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