Stopping harmful oral bacteria in its path is goal for Case Western Reserve researcher
CLEVELANDThe best way to keep bacteria from doing any damage is to stop them in their tracks before they can start down their pathological road to destruction. Yiping Han, associate professor at the Case Western Reserve University School of Dental Medicine, aims to understand how to build roadbl...Harmful Bacteria May Hide on Soft Surfaces in Your Home
LYSOL(R) Helps Protect Families by Killing 99.9% of Illness-Causing Bacteria on Soft Surfaces PARSIPPANY, N.J., June 22 /PRNewswire/ -- Your family may not be the only ones getting comfy and cozy on the sofa. The soft, comfortable places where families relax and play at home can harbo...New antibiotics could come from a DNA binding compound that kills bacteria in 2 minutes
A synthetic DNA binding compound has proved surprisingly effective at binding to the DNA of bacteria and killing all the bacteria it touched within two minutes. The DNA binding properties of the compound were first discovered in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Warwick by Professor...Study Finds Multitude of Bacteria on Human Skin
The amount of genetic diversity surprises experts THURSDAY, May 28 (HealthDay News) --Should it worry you that there are 19 different species of bacteria living behind your ears? Not especially, when you consider that there are 44 species thriving right out in the open on your forea...Nanoemulsion Kills Highly Resistant Bacteria Found in Patients With Cystic Fibrosis
ANN ARBOR, Mich., Jan. 29 /PRNewswire/ -- Scientists at NanoBio Corp. and the University of Michigan have demonstrated in the laboratory that their novel topical nanoemulsion kills the highly resistant strains of bacteria that cause chronic illness and death among individuals with cystic fib...'Friendly' Bacteria Can Benefit Health Throughout the Lifecycle
Experts Discuss Promising Research at The American College of Nutrition Annual Meeting WASHINGTON, Oct. 6 /PRNewswire/ -- New research on the benefits of probiotics in children and seniors was presented at The American College of Nutrition (ACN) Annual Meeting in a ...NOLabs AB Reports Success in Fight Against Bacteria Causing Urinary Tract Infection
HELSINGBORG, Sweden, April 15 /PRNewswire/ -- NOLabs AB, the Swedish medtech company focusing on developing innovative Nitric Oxide-containing medical devices, today reported that it has achieved another important milestone in the development of a new preventive therapy against urinary tract i...New Data Show In Vitro Potency of Doripenem Against Resistant Bacteria
WASHINGTON, Oct. 27 /PRNewswire/ -- Johnson & Johnson Pharmaceutical Research & Development, L.L.C. (J&JPRD), today announced new study results that demonstrate doripenem (DORIBAX(TM), doripenem for injection), a carbapenem antibiotic, was found to be more potent in vitro against certain strai...Identification, Anaerobic Bacteria with R1eflex to Susceptibility
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Scientists are to study a group of proteins that are highly effective at killing bacteria and which could hold the key to developing new types of antibiotics. Researchers from the Universities of York and Leeds have been awarded 3.3m from the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Counc...Boston University biomedical engineers teach bacteria to count
BOSTON (05-28-09) -- Biomedical engineers at Boston University have taught bacteria how to count. Professor James J. Collins and colleagues have wired a new sequence of genes that allow the microbes to count discrete events, opening the door for a host of potential applications, which could includ...Tufted bacteria cause infection in premature babies
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Researchers at Washington University in St. Louis have figured out the orientation of a protein in the antenna complex to its neighboring membrane in a photosynthetic bacterium, a key find in the process of energy transfer in photosynthesis. Robert Blankenship, Ph.D., Markey Distinguished Profe...Genetically engineered bacteria compute the route
US researchers have created 'bacterial computers' with the potential to solve complicated mathematics problems. The findings of the research, published in BioMed Central's open access Journal of Biological Engineering , demonstrate that computing in living cells is feasible, opening the door to a...Israeli scientists show bacteria can plan ahead
Bacteria can anticipate a future event and prepare for it, according to new research at the Weizmann Institute of Science. In a paper that appeared today in Nature , Prof. Yitzhak Pilpel, doctoral student Amir Mitchell and research associate Dr. Orna Dahan of the Institute's Molecular Genetics De...BASF Set To Commercialize pro-t-action(TM) Eliminating Caries Causing Bacteria From the Mouth
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