Microbiology
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Bacterial enzyme could become a new target for antibiotics
Chemists have discovered the structure of an unusual bacterial enzyme that can break down an amino acid found in collagen.
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Scientists repurpose waste bread to feed microbes
Researchers have developed a secret sauce for using waste bread as a medium to grow bacteria, yeasts, and other microorganisms.
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Here’s How E. Coli Knows How to Make You Really Sick
University of Virginia scientists have revealed how E. coli seeks out the most oxygen-free crevices of your colon to cause the worst infection possible.
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Scientists find powerful potential weapon to overcome antibiotic resistance
Scientists at the UNC School of Medicine have discovered a way to make Staphylococcus aureus much more susceptible to some common antibiotics
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New Method To Fight Drug Tolerant Bacteria
In a leading research conducted at the Research Institute of McGill University Health Centre (RI-MUHC), the scientists have identified new means of fighting drug-tolerant bacteria, which has become a growing global threat. It is considered as dangerous as the drug-resistant microbes. Till date, there is not much information available about the mechanisms that lead to tolerance. Tolerance is a strategy…
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Bacteria gifting their colleagues with the defences against antibiotics
Bacteria has found many ways to tackle the antibiotics during the course of time and the most common example is antibiotic resistance. What’s New A recent study found a new method using which a particular type of bacteria are helping their friends ( which means other bacteria) to develop resistance to antibiotics. It’s like bacteria sharing notes among them. Bacteria…
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How A Single Genetic Change in Gut Bacteria Can Affect our Metabolism
Gut flora or gut bacteria is the community of organism which lives in our digestive system. These microbes have incredible potential to affect our physiology, both in health and in diseases like the development of obesity and metabolic diseases such as diabetes. A new study showed changes in metabolism and reduction in weight gain in mice on deleting a single…
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Melting Bacteria to Break Down Antibiotic Resistance
Antibiotic Resistance is the reason due to which bacteria are spreading worldwide without any control which lead to a strong need for creating new technologies which can help to study bacteria. A new research done by EMBL researchers studied the melting protein behavior in the bacteria using existing techniques which is thermal proteome profiling. Thermal protein profiling (TPP) is used to compare…
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Bacteria Killing Their Competitors by Following ‘Divide and Conquer’
In a new study led by the research group from Imperial College London, researchers have experimented to see the result of bacteria provoking their competitors. Some bacterial strain releases a toxin agent which evoke other bacteria in their surroundings to attack. Scientist hopes that this tactic can be used against the infectious disease. The conflict for the food resources between…
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Cells Trapping Viruses in Their Protein Cage
A recent report by the researcher of The Francis Crick Institute in London unearth that proliferation of the virus from cell to cell can be stopped by trapping the viruses in a protein cage by the cell. Journal of cell biology has published the article recently which unveils that the additional protein of vaccinia virus can escape the trap by…
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