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Will the plague pathogen become resistant to antibiotics?

...ent in bacteria such as Salmonella and Escherichia coli found in retail samples of beef, pork, chicken, an...o track MDR in Y. pestis. MDR Salmonella and E. coli have been found in droppings from wild geese, raising the possibility that wild animals might be abl...

Cheaper, better disease treatments expected from faster approach to developing antibodies

...h. As a result, harmless forms of the bacterium E. coli have already been used as factories to produce ant...body method, an antibody that is produced by an E. coli bacterium becomes tethered to one of its inner surfaces, or membranes. Small "errors" in the genes t...

Infection detectives use disease 'fingerprints' to track common infections in children

...s aureus); strep (Streptococcus pneumoniae); or E. coli (Escherichia coli). They analyzed 35 genes that...were able to distinguish between the influenza, E. coli and strep infections in 95 percent of cases. A different set of genes distinguished E. coli from sta...

Shedding new light on proteorhodopsin

...ences (PNAS), entitled: Light-powering Escherichia coli with proteorhodopsin. Co-authoring the paper with ...ors genetically engineered a strain of Escherichia coli that would express the light-sensitive protein. Said Walter, "The energy metabolism of E. coli is...

Bacteria control how infectious they become, study finds

... to turn on those genes that give bacteria like E. coli and Y. pestis their ability to infect. The rese...responsible for controlling the genes that make E. coli infectious. “In contrast to NusG, which is always active, RfaH is usually inactive, because the p...

Lighting up life: Cold Spring Harbor Protocols presents tips for creating glowing plants

...at could be inserted into other organisms—from E. coli to pigs—and cause them to radiate a brilliant green color. This green fluorescent protein (GFP) has allowed biologists to make many new discoveries regarding how living cells function. But one kingdom of life—plants—has presented special challenges ...

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