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Weapons by Which Bacteria Fight Each Other Revealed: Could Lead to New Antibacterial Drugs
April 4, 2013 — Biologists have discovered that bacteria can degrade the cell membrane of bacterial competitors with enzymes that do not harm their own membrane. This exciting finding opens the way for the ... > full story -
Pathogen's Scissor-Like Enzyme Provides New Clues to Treatment of Infectious Disease
April 4, 2013 — Researchers report that a pathogen annually blamed for an estimated 90 million cases of food-borne illness defeats a host's immune response by using a fat-snipping enzyme to cut off cellular ... > full story -
Wild Mice Have Natural Protection Against Lyme Borreliosis
April 4, 2013 — Like humans, mice can become infected with Borrelia. However, not all mice that come into contact with these bacteria contract the dreaded Lyme disease: Animals with a particular gene variant are ... > full story -
An Inside Look at Carnivorous Plants
April 2, 2013 — A pitcher plant's work seems simple: Their tube-shaped leaves catch and hold rainwater, which drowns the ants, beetles, and flies that stumble in. But the rainwater inside a pitcher plant is not just ... > full story -
New Light Shed on Common Sexually Transmitted Infection
April 2, 2013 — Medical researchers have found that a common sexually transmitted infection-causing parasite "cultivates" bacteria beneficial to it, changing thinking about which comes first -- infection or ... > full story -
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Fighting Listeria and Other Food-Borne Illnesses With Nanobiotechnology
April 2, 2013 — Engineering researchers have developed a new method to kill deadly pathogenic bacteria, including listeria, in food handling and packaging. This innovation represents an alternative to the use of ... > full story -
Symbiotic Bacteria Program Circadian-Like Rhythms in Squid Using Light and Chemicals
April 2, 2013 — Glowing bacteria inside squid use light and chemical signals to control circadian-like rhythms in the animals, according to a new study. The results of the study show that, in addition to acting as a ... > full story -
How Cells Distinguish Friend from Foe
April 1, 2013 — Researchers ave shown how the innate immune system distinguishes between dangerous pathogens and friendly microbes. Like burglars entering a house, hostile bacteria give themselves away by breaking ... > full story -
Streams Stressed by Pharmaceutical Pollution
April 1, 2013 — Pharmaceuticals commonly found in the environment are disrupting streams, with unknown impacts on aquatic life and water quality. So reports a new paper that highlights the ecological cost of ... > full story -
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Head-on Collisions Between DNA-Code Reading Machineries Accelerate Gene Evolution
March 29, 2013 — The bacteria Bacillus subtilis places some of their genes in prime collision paths for the moving molecular machineries that read the DNA code. This spatial-organization tactic to evolve and adapt ... > full story
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