Say what? Bacterial conversation stoppers
While a chattering crowd of various species of bacteria is essentially a microbial tower of Babel, certain snippets of their chemical conversation are almost universally understood. HHMI researchers have found that bacteria of different species can talk to each other using a common language ?and also that some species can manipulate the conversation to confuse other bacteria. The interspe...'Conversation stoppers' fight deadly bacterial infections
The study, which was directed by Scripps Research Professor Benjamin Cravatt, Ph.D., is being published in the September 8 issue of The Journal of Biological Chemistry. The new study describes a pathway-different than the one previously suggested-for the biosynthesis of neurotransmitter lipids, N-acyl ethanolamines (NAEs), which include the endogenous cannabinoid ("endocannabinoid") ananda...Orissa’s Correspondence Student Gain Entry in Toppers’ Lit
The Orissa government has included the name of a Class 10 correspondence course student in the state's toppers list, which it had earlier failed to do, an official said Saturday//. The board of secondary education in the state had named 22 students of various private and government high schools in its list of toppers last Wednesday. But Pravas Kumar Sahu, who secured 708 o...