The jump genes accelerate bacterial evolution in the laboratory
Lines of sequences of the bacterial genome are made to evolve independently by introducing sequences of high activity insertion, each ...
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McDonald’s shares fall 7% due to deaths and bacterial infections in sandwiches it offers economy
McDonald's stock lost about 7% of its value, after the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in the United States ...
Discovery of new bacterial toxins could be key to fighting infections
E. coli bacteria exposed to the production of each of nine different novel toxins (PT1-PT9) for 40 minutes, exhibiting different ...
A team develops a promising new form of antibiotic that causes bacterial cells to self-destruct
Credit: Journal of Medicinal Chemistry (2024). DOI: 10.1021/acs.jmedchem.4c00773 To address the global threat of antibiotic resistance, scientists are looking for ...
Personalized bacterial vaccine shows promise as cancer immunotherapy
Modified bacterial cells (purple) activate several parts of the immune system to attack tumor cells (gray). Credit: Columbia University Columbia ...
Bacterial contamination and microplastics threaten Colombia’s largest and most productive coastal lagoon
A study carried out by researchers from UB and the Institute of Marine and Coastal Research (INVEMAR) in Colombia warns ...
Study reveals new mechanism for protecting bacterial cell walls
Model for controlling lytic transglycosylase activities by LD cross-linking. Credit: Nature Communications (2024). DOI: 10.1038/s41467-024-52325-2 Researchers from Umeå University in ...
Bacterial ‘flipping’ allows genes to take different forms
Consequences of inversion in thiamine protein biosynthesis. Credit: Nature (2024). DOI: 10.1038/s41586-024-07970-4 Imagine you're about to change your appearance. One ...
Newly Discovered Bacterial Defense System Works Like a Self-Destruct Button
Structural analysis of PCaspase. (A) Top: Full-length PCaspase AlphaFold2 model. Below: zoom in on the catalytic dyad. (B) Top: Processed ...
Research team identifies new approach to fight bacterial infections
Icahn Mount Sinai researchers reveal how the self-destructive activity of bacteria can be used in the fight against antibiotic resistance. ...
